AMD Vega 12 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGP104Vega 12
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 April 2017 (6 years old)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$499 no data
Current price$6655 (13.3x MSRP)$82

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25601280
Core clock speed1607 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1733 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology16 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Wattno data
Texture fill rate277.3no data
Floating-point performance8,873 gflopsno data

Size and 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 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

Memory

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 typeGDDR5Xno data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed11008 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth352.3 GB/sno data

Video outputs and ports

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 data
HDMI+no data

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA6.1no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Chip lithography 16 nm 14 nm

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
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Vega 12

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