AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
May 2016
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1733 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
320.3GB/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
33.60 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
138.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Curacao
GP104
GPU Variant
Curacao XT(215-0848004)
GP104-400-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
180W
180W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
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
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,769
7,565
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
3,446
Battlefield 5 1080p
-
128
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
62
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
99
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
52
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
97
GTA 5 2160p
-
56
GTA 5 1440p
-
74
GTA 5 1080p
-
154