NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2017
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 10
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1607 MHz
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Boost Clock
1733 MHz
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Memory Clock
1376 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
352.3GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
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Shading Units
2560
768
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
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12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
Saturn
GPU Variant
GP104-410-A1
Saturn XT
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
180W
100W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.