GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R9 390 X2

GeForce GTX 1080
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 27 May 2016
GeForce GTX 1080
Radeon R9 390 X2
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Sep 2015
Radeon R9 390 X2
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080

400 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 390 X2 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 390 X2

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080Radeon R9 390 X2
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-400-A1)vsGrenada (Grenada PRO)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders2560vs2560
Compute Units20vs40
Core clock1607 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs64vs64
TMUs160vs160

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080Radeon R9 390 X2
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs512 bit x2
Memory Speed1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
vs1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1080Radeon R9 390 X2
TDP180 wattsvs580 watts
Release Date27 May 2016vs3 Sep 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    102.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 390 X2
    128.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    257.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 390 X2
    320.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    320.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 390 X2
    692.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    8228.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 390 X2
    10240.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better