NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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, 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • Around 77% higher boost clock speed: 1771 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 283.4 GTexel / s vs 256.0 GTexel / s
  • Around 11% better floating-point performance: 9,068 gflops vs 8,192 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
  • Around 57% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 7209 vs 4579
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 August 2016 vs 27 August 2015
Boost clock speed 1771 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 283.4 GTexel / s vs 256.0 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 9,068 gflops vs 8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7209 vs 4579

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2560
  • Around 3% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 180 Watt
  • 50x more memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 10 GB/s
Pipelines 4096 vs 2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 180 Watt
Memory clock speed 500 MHz vs 10 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Nano

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
7209
4579
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop) AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Geekbench - OpenCL 55469
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 7209 4579

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop) AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 3.0
Code name GP104 Fiji
Launch date 15 August 2016 27 August 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $499.99 $649
Place in performance rating 258 261
Price now $439.99
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 43.70
Design AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1771 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 1607 MHz
CUDA cores 2560
Floating-point performance 9,068 gflops 8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 94 °C
Pipelines 2560 4096
Texture fill rate 283.4 GTexel / s 256.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt 175 Watt
Transistor count 7,200 million 8,900 million
Compute units 64
Stream Processors 4096

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0 PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Bridgeless CrossFire
Length 152 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 320 GB / s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 4096 bit
Memory clock speed 10 GB/s 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
Shared memory 0 0
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore