GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q and Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

N17E-G3 Max-Q

Neptune CF

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

May 2017

March 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1278 - 1468 MHz

900 MHz

Core clock speed

1101 - 1290 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

7,516 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

2x 2800 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

90 - 110 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

234.9

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

2x 4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

2x 256 Bit

Memory clock speed

10000 MHz

4800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.3 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (FL 11_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

VR Ready