Radeon R7 350X OEM vs GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	117	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	66.25	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	Pascal GP104 SLI	Oland
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	16 August 2016 (7 years old)	5 May 2015 (8 years old)
Current price	$352	$127

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 cores	5120	384
Core clock speed	1556 MHz	1000 MHz
Boost clock speed	1733 MHz	1050 MHz
Number of transistors	14400 Million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	65 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	25.20
Floating-point performance	no data	806.4 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and Radeon R7 350X OEM compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	no data	PCIe 3.0 x8
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None
SLI options	+	no 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 type	GDDR5	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2x 8 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	10000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	32 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no 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 Connectors	no data	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	no data	+
G-SYNC support	+	no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

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no data

API support

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

DirectX	12_1	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	no data	5.1
OpenGL	no data	4.6
OpenCL	no data	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.2.131
CUDA	+	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	16 August 2016	5 May 2015
Chip lithography	16 nm	28 nm

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