AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop) 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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 WX Vega M GL

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
291.7x more texture fill rate: 80.88 GTexel/s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
70x more memory clock speed: 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective) vs 10 GB/s

Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 27 May 2016
Texture fill rate	80.88 GTexel/s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 16 nm
Memory clock speed	700 MHz (1400 MHz effective) vs 10 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Around 73% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 931 MHz
Around 71% higher boost clock speed: 1733 MHz vs 1011 MHz
2x more pipelines: 2560 vs 1280
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 886 vs 370
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15560 vs 4769

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1607 MHz vs 931 MHz
Boost clock speed	1733 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Pipelines	2560 vs 1280
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	886 vs 370
PassMark - G3D Mark	15560 vs 4769

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

370

886

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4769

15560

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)
PassMark - G2D Mark	370	886
PassMark - G3D Mark	4769	15560
Geekbench - OpenCL		55425
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		150.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2036.763
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		14.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		27.417
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		819.934
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3343
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1557

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Pascal
Code name	Polaris 22	GP104
Launch date	1 February 2018	27 May 2016
Place in performance rating	288	286
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$599
Price now		$439.99
Value for money (0-100)		43.72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz	1733 MHz
Compute performance	20
Core clock speed	931 MHz	1607 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	161.8 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.588 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.588 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1280	2560
Pixel fill rate	32.35 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	80.88 GTexel/s	277.3 GTexel / s
Texture Units	65 Watt
Transistor count	5000 million	7,200 million
CUDA cores		2560
Floating-point performance		8,873 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		94 °C
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		180 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		8-pin
Width		2-slot
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.3
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	320 GB / s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)	10 GB/s
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready