GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and Fire GL2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Fire GL2
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
IBM (1999−2001)
GPU code name
GP104
GT1000
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
June 2000
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
205 MHz
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
250 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
-
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
277.3
0.21
Memory type
GDDR5X
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
11008 MHz
240 MHz
Memory bandwidth
352.3 GB/s
7.68 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
6.0
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A