NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop) vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop) and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 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, 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 Ti (Desktop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher boost clock speed: 1582 MHz vs 1018 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • Around 38% higher maximum memory size: 11 GB vs 8 GB
  • 8.8x more memory clock speed: 11008 MHz vs 1250 MHz
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18558 vs 8621
  • Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 937 vs 768
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 March 2017 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed 1582 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size 11 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 11008 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 18558 vs 8621
PassMark - G2D Mark 937 vs 768

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

  • 6.1x more texture fill rate: 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 354.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 57% higher pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 3584
  • Around 1% better floating-point performance: 2x 5,733 gflops vs 11,340 gflops
Texture fill rate 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 354.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 2816 vs 3584
Floating-point performance 2x 5,733 gflops vs 11,340 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
18558
8621
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
937
768
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop) AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 18558 8621
PassMark - G2D Mark 937 768
Geekbench - OpenCL 62406
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 205.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2406.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1002.573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 15019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9870 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop) AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 2.0
Code name GP102 Vesuvius
Launch date 10 March 2017 29 April 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $699 $1,499
Place in performance rating 201 174
Price now $826.98 $1,099.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 27.48 11.14
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1582 MHz 1018 MHz
Core clock speed 1481 MHz
Floating-point performance 11,340 gflops 2x 5,733 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 91 °C
Pipelines 3584 2x 2816
Texture fill rate 354.4 GTexel / s 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 11,800 million 6,200 million
Stream Processors 5632

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm) 307 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 2 x 8-pin
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 11 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 484.4 GB / s 640 GB/s
Memory bus width 352 Bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 11008 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory type GDDR5X GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
HDMI 2.0b
PCIe 3.0
SLI
Virtual Reality
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)