GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

GP104

RV570

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

January 2007

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1733 MHz

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

575 MHz

Floating-point performance

8,873 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

330 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

277.3

6.900

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

11008 MHz

1380 MHz

Memory bandwidth

352.3 GB/s

44.16 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

Shader Model

6.4

3.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A