Radeon RX Vega 56 and GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 56
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Vega
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2017
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1474 MHz
1733 MHz
Core clock speed
1138 MHz
1607 MHz
Floating-point performance
10,566 gflops
8,873 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
180 Watt
Texture fill rate
329.5
277.3
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
409.6 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
11008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
409.6 GB/s
352.3 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.125
1.2.131