GeForce GTX 1080 and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon 540
GeForce GTX 1080
16002
Radeon 540
1420
GeForce GTX 1080
Radeon 540
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
April 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
1183 MHz
CUDA cores
2560
-
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
384
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
277.3
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
24 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-