GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and Radeon RX 540 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Radeon RX 540 OEM

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

GP104

Cape Verde

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1733 MHz

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

1219 MHz

Floating-point performance

8,873 gflops

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

512

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

65 Watt

Texture fill rate

277.3

39.01

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

11008 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

352.3 GB/s

96 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12.0

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

6.4

5.0

Vulkan

1.2.131