AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2012
Apr 2017
Generation
London
GeForce 10
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1376 MHz
Base Clock
-
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1733 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
352.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
2560
TMUs
80
160
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
138.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Wimbledon
GP104
GPU Variant
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
GP104-410-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
180W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
-
6.1