AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 1290 MHz
  • Around 17% higher boost clock speed: 1720 MHz vs 1468 MHz
  • 1874.4x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 8192 vs 2560
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 64 GB vs 8 GB
  • 2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 98341 vs 48090
  • Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 858 vs 717
  • Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14018 vs 11422
Specifications (specs)
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 27 June 2017
Core clock speed 1574 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed 1720 MHz vs 1468 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
Pipelines 8192 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size 64 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 98341 vs 48090
PassMark - G2D Mark 858 vs 717
PassMark - G3D Mark 14018 vs 11422

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

  • 3.2x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 475 Watt
  • 6.2x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 1612 MHz
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 17105 vs 14208
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 17105 vs 14208
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5581 vs 3713
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5581 vs 3713
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 475 Watt
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 1612 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17105 vs 14208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17105 vs 14208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5581 vs 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5581 vs 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 vs 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 vs 3359

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
98341
48090
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14208
17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14208
17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3713
5581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3713
5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3360
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
858
717
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
14018
11422
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL 98341 48090
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14208 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14208 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 3360
PassMark - G2D Mark 858 717
PassMark - G3D Mark 14018 11422
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6008

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 Pascal
Code name Vega 20 GP104
Launch date Dec 2019 27 June 2017
Place in performance rating 184 183
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1720 MHz 1468 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1574 MHz 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 880.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 28.18 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 14.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines 8192 2560
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 234.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 7,200 million
Floating-point performance 7,516 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None None
Width Dual-slot
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 64 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 825.3 GB/s 320.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz 10008 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5X
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready