NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon 520

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and AMD Radeon 520 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

AMD Radeon 520

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Around 56% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 1030 MHz
Around 68% higher boost clock speed: 1733 MHz vs 1030 MHz
8x more pipelines: 2560 vs 320
13.4x better floating-point performance: 8,873 gflops vs 660 GFLOPs
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 11008 MHz vs 4500 MHz

Core clock speed	1607 MHz vs 1030 MHz
Boost clock speed	1733 MHz vs 1030 MHz
Pipelines	2560 vs 320
Floating-point performance	8,873 gflops vs 660 GFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	11008 MHz vs 4500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 520

74.3x more texture fill rate: 20.60 GTexel/s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 180 Watt

Texture fill rate	20.60 GTexel/s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 180 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 520

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps	AMD Radeon 520
PassMark - G3D Mark		865
PassMark - G2D Mark		203
Geekbench - OpenCL		26304
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1182
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1182
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1242
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1242
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps	AMD Radeon 520
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 1.0
Code name	GP104	Oland
Launch date	20 April 2017	18 April 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$499
Place in performance rating	not rated	1109
Type	Desktop	Desktop, Laptop
Design		Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation		1st Gen
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1733 MHz	1030 MHz
Core clock speed	1607 MHz	1030 MHz
Floating-point performance	8,873 gflops	660 GFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2560	320
Texture fill rate	277.3 GTexel / s	20.60 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	180 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	7,200 million	1,040 million
Compute units		5
Pixel fill rate		4.10 GP/s
Render output units		4
Stream Processors		320
Texture Units		20
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	352.3 GB / s	48 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 bit
Memory clock speed	11008 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5X	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)