NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2016
Aug 2017
Generation
GeForce 10
Vega
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1607 MHz
1156 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1471 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
800 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
HBM2
Memory Bus
256bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
409.6GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
3584
TMUs
160
224
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
Compute Units
-
56

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
94.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
21.09 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
10.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP104
Vega 10
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
16 nm
14 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
495 mm²

Board Design

TDP
180W
210W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.4

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
7,565
6,783
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,446
3,310
Battlefield 5 1080p
128
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
32
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
62
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
99
-
Battlefield 5 2160p
52
-
Battlefield 5 1440p
97
-
GTA 5 2160p
56
-
GTA 5 1440p
74
-
GTA 5 1080p
154
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