AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid 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, Memory, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher texture fill rate: 429.3 GTexel / s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2560
  • Around 55% better floating-point performance: 13,738 gflops vs 8,873 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
  • 189x more memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 10 GB/s
  • Around 3% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 7765 vs 7546
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 August 2017 vs 27 May 2016
Texture fill rate 429.3 GTexel / s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4096 vs 2560
Floating-point performance 13,738 gflops vs 8,873 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz vs 10 GB/s
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7765 vs 7546

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

  • Around 14% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 1406 MHz
  • Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1733 MHz vs 1677 MHz
  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 180 Watt vs 225 Watt
Core clock speed 1607 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Boost clock speed 1733 MHz vs 1677 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
7765
7546
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7765 7546
PassMark - G3D Mark 15554
PassMark - G2D Mark 886
Geekbench - OpenCL 55407
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

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Pascal
Code name Vega 10 GP104
Launch date 8 August 2017 27 May 2016
Place in performance rating 267 265
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $599
Price now $439.99
Value for money (0-100) 43.72

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1677 MHz 1733 MHz
Core clock speed 1406 MHz 1607 MHz
Floating-point performance 13,738 gflops 8,873 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Pipelines 4096 2560
Texture fill rate 429.3 GTexel / s 277.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 180 Watt
CUDA cores 2560
Maximum GPU temperature 94 °C
Transistor count 7,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 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 PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 8-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Width 2-slot

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 483.8 GB / s 320 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz 10 GB/s
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.5
Vulkan

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready