Radeon R4 Graphics vs GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGP104Beema
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 April 2017 (7 years ago)11 June 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2560128
Core clock speed1607 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed1733 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,200 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate277.36.400
Floating-point processing power8.873 TFLOPS0.2048 TFLOPS
ROPs644
TMUs1608

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5XSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1376 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth352.3 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2017 11 June 2014
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 180 Watt 15 Watt

GTX 1080 11Gbps has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

R4 Graphics, on the other hand, has 1100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and Radeon R4 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
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