GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile vs Radeon R9 M295X

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XMOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
Radeon R9 M295X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 23 Nov 2014
Radeon R9 M295X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 M295X .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M295X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080 MobileRadeon R9 M295X
GPU NameGP104 ()vsAmethyst (Amethyst XT)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders2560vs2048
Compute Units20vs32
Core clock1556 MHzvs723 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs160vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080 MobileRadeon R9 M295X
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1080 MobileRadeon R9 M295X
TDP150 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs23 Nov 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    99.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 M295X
    23.14 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    249.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 M295X
    92.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    320.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 M295X
    160.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    7967.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 M295X
    2961.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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