GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile vs Radeon RX 480

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XMOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
Radeon RX 480
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 480

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    101%
  • Radeon RX 480
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080 MobileRadeon RX 480
GPU NameGP104 ()vsEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)
Fab Process16 nmvs14 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs232 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs5,700 million
Shaders2560vs2304
Compute Units20vs36
Core clock1556 MHzvs1120 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs160vs144

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080 MobileRadeon RX 480
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
vs2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1080 MobileRadeon RX 480
TDP150 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    99.60 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 480
    40.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    249.00 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 480
    182.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    320.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 480
    256.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    7967.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 480
    5834.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    18790
  • Radeon RX 480
    18430

Points (higher is better)