GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GP104
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
320
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
277.3
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5X
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
11008 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
352.3 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-