AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2016
May 2016
Generation
Radeon Instinct
GeForce 10
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
1733 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
320.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
—
Shading Units
2304
2560
TMUs
144
160
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
SM Count
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
138.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GP104
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
GP104-400-A1
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Pascal
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
180W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
CUDA
—
6.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
7,565
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
3,446
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
128
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
62
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
99
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
52
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
97
GTA 5 2160p
—
56
GTA 5 1440p
—
74
GTA 5 1080p
—
154
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.