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

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop) 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 285.4x more texture fill rate: 80.88 GTexel/s vs 283.4 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 15 August 2016
Texture fill rate 80.88 GTexel/s vs 283.4 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 (Laptop)

  • Around 73% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 931 MHz
  • Around 75% higher boost clock speed: 1771 MHz vs 1011 MHz
  • 2x more pipelines: 2560 vs 1280
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
Core clock speed 1607 MHz vs 931 MHz
Boost clock speed 1771 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Pipelines 2560 vs 1280
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB

Compare benchmarks

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

Name AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)
PassMark - G2D Mark 370
PassMark - G3D Mark 4769
Geekbench - OpenCL 55525
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) 20151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 4646
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 4195
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 4646
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 4195
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7241

Compare specifications (specs)

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

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Code name Polaris 22 GP104
Launch date 1 February 2018 15 August 2016
Place in performance rating 286 288
Type Mobile workstation Laptop
Launch price (MSRP) $499.99
Price now $439.99
Value for money (0-100) 43.70

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1011 MHz 1771 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 283.4 GTexel / s
Texture Units 65 Watt
Transistor count 5000 million 7,200 million
CUDA cores 2560
Floating-point performance 9,068 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
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Laptop size large

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