AMD Radeon Pro VII vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro VII and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro VII

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1468 MHz
1736.9x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2560
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
Around 96% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89937 vs 45938

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 May 2020 vs 27 June 2017
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1468 MHz
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	89937 vs 45938

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
10x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	10008 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro VII
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

89937

45938

Name	AMD Radeon Pro VII	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	89937	45938
PassMark - G3D Mark		11533
PassMark - G2D Mark		735
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		6008

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro VII	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	Pascal
Code name	Vega 20	GP104
Launch date	13 May 2020	27 June 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$1899
Place in performance rating	192	180
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz	1468 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840	2560
Pixel fill rate	108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s	234.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	13230 million	7,200 million
Floating-point performance		7,516 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
G-SYNC support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	305 mm (12 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None
Width	111 mm (4.4 inches)
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s	320.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)	10008 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5X
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready