GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs Radeon R9 Nano

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking247not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.35no data
Power efficiency9.23no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameFijiGP102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date27 August 2015 (9 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$649 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores40963200
Compute units64no data
Core clock speedno data1557 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1670 MHz
Number of transistors8,900 million11,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate256.0334.0
Floating-point processing power8.192 TFLOPS10.69 TFLOPS
ROPs6480
TMUs256200

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length152 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 typeHigh Bandwidth Memory (HBM)GDDR5X
High bandwidth memory (HBM)+no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GB12 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1376 MHz
Memory bandwidth512 GB/s528.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI++
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
ZeroCore+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.7
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan+1.3
Mantle+-
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 250 Watt

R9 Nano has 42.9% lower power consumption.

GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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