Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs GeForce GTX 1080
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon Vega Frontier Edition |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 |
| 120 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition . |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon Vega Frontier Edition | | GeForce GTX 1080 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Vega 10 (Vega 10 XT) | vs | GP104 (GP104-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 484 mm² | vs | 314 mm² |
| Transistors | 12,500 million | vs | 7,200 million |
| Shaders | 4096 | vs | 2560 |
| Compute Units | 64 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 1500 MHz | vs | 1607 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 256 | vs | 160 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon Vega Frontier Edition | | GeForce GTX 1080 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | HBM2 | vs | GDDR5X |
| Bus Width | 2048 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 945 MHz
1890 MHz effective | vs | 1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 16384 Mb | vs | 8192 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon Vega Frontier Edition | | GeForce GTX 1080 | |
|---|
| TDP | 300 watts | vs | 180 watts |
| Release Date | 27 Jun 2017 | vs | 27 May 2016 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better