GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon Pro Duo

GeForce GTX 1080
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 27 May 2016
GeForce GTX 1080
Radeon Pro Duo
Memory: 4096Mb HBMDESKTOP
Release date: 14 Mar 2016
Radeon Pro Duo

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080

170 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon Pro Duo .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Pro Duo

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon Pro Duo

HWBench recommends Radeon Pro Duo

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080Radeon Pro Duo
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-400-A1)vsCapsaicin (Capsaicin XT)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs596 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs8,900 million
Shaders2560vs4096
Compute Units20vs64
Core clock1607 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs64vs64
TMUs160vs256

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080Radeon Pro Duo
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsHBM
Bus Width256 bitvs4096 bit x2
Memory Speed1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1080Radeon Pro Duo
TDP180 wattsvs350 watts
Release Date27 May 2016vs14 Mar 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    102.80 GP/s
  • Radeon Pro Duo
    128.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    257.10 GT/s
  • Radeon Pro Duo
    512.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    320.00 GB/s
  • Radeon Pro Duo
    1024.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    8228.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon Pro Duo
    16384.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better