GeForce GTX 1080 and Radeon 9700 PRO X4 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1080

Radeon 9700 PRO X4

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Rage 8 (2002−2006)

GPU code name

Pascal GP104

R300

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2016

July 2002

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCI

Recommended system power (PSU)

500 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin

2x Molex

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1733 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

325 MHz

CUDA cores

2560

-

Floating-point performance

8,873 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

110 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

-

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

94 °C

-

Texture fill rate

277.3

2.600

Memory type

GDDR5X

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

128 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

10 GB/s

620 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

19.84 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI

4x DVI

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

9.0 (9_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.5

2.0

Shader Model

6.4

-

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

Ansel

+

-

GPU Boost

3.0

-

VR Ready

+

-