NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2017
Mar 2014
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1290 MHz
827 MHz
Boost Clock
1468 MHz
933 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
1792
TMUs
160
112
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
93.95 GPixel/s
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
234.9 GTexel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
117.4 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
7.516 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
234.9 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
Tahiti
GPU Variant
N17E-G3-A1
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
200W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
550 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
5.1