NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GP104GPU NameVega 10
GP104-400-A1Model numberVega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
PascalArchitectureGCN 5.0
TSMCFoundryGlobalFoundries
16 nmProcess Size14 nm
7,200 millionTransistors12,500 million
314 mm²Die Size495 mm²

Graphics Card

May 27th, 2016Release DateAug 14th, 2017
GeForce 10FamilyRadeon Pro Mac
(Vega Series)
ActiveProductionActive
PCIe 3.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

8 GBMemory Size8 GB
GDDR5XMemory TypeHBM2
256 bitMemory Bus2048 bit
320.3 GB/sBandwidth402.4 GB/s

Performance

110.9 GPixel/sPixel fillrate80.00 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/sTexture fillrate280.0 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)FP16 (half) performance17.92 TFLOPS (2:1)
8.873 TFLOPSFP32 (float) performance8.960 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS (1:32)FP64 (double) performance560.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

Clock Speeds

1607 MHzBase Clock1138 MHz
1733 MHzBoost Clock1250 MHz
1251 MHz
10 Gbps effective
Memory Clock786 MHz
1572 Mbps effective

Render Config

2560Shading Units3584
160TMUs224
64ROPs64
48 KB (per SM)L1 Cache16 KB (per CU)
2 MBL2 Cache4 MB

Board Design

Dual-slotSlot WidthIGP
180 WThermal design power (TDP)210 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort
Display Connectors1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort
1x 8-pinPower ConnectorsNone

API support

12 (12_1)DirectX12 (12_1)
4.6OpenGL4.6
3.0OpenCL2.1
1.2Vulkan1.2
6.4Shader Model6.4