GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GP104
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
277.3
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
11008 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
352.3 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+