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Side-by-side comparison of specifications and performance

Performance Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

856%
856%

AMD Radeon HD 6790

16%
16%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is approximately 840% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080AMD Radeon HD 6790
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
GP104
Barts
CoresDifferent
2560
800
TMUsDifferent
160
40
ROPsDifferent
64
16
Memory SizeDifferent
8 GB
1024 MB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Bus Width
256 bit
256 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080AMD Radeon HD 6790
GPU NameDifferent
GP104
Barts
GPU VariantDifferent
GP104-400-A1
Barts LE(215-0798002)
ArchitectureDifferent
Pascal
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process SizeDifferent
16 nm
40 nm
TransistorsDifferent
7,200 million
1,700 million
DensityDifferent
22.9M / mm²
6.7M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
314 mm²
255 mm²
Chip PackageDifferent
BGA-2150
HFCBGA-1737

Graphics Card

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080AMD Radeon HD 6790
Release DateDifferent
May 27th, 2016
Apr 4th, 2011
GenerationDifferent
GeForce 10
Northern Islands(HD 6700)
PredecessorDifferent
GeForce 900
Evergreen
SuccessorDifferent
GeForce 20
Southern Islands
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
599 USD
149 USD
Bus InterfaceDifferent
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
183 in our database
37 in our database

Clock Speeds

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080AMD Radeon HD 6790
Base ClockDifferent
1607 MHz
N/A
Boost ClockDifferent
1733 MHz
N/A
Memory ClockDifferent
1251 MHz10 Gbps effective
1050 MHz4.2 Gbps effective
GPU ClockDifferent
N/A
840 MHz

Memory

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080AMD Radeon HD 6790
Memory SizeDifferent
8 GB
1024 MB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
BandwidthDifferent
320.3 GB/s
134.4 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080AMD Radeon HD 6790
Shading UnitsDifferent
2560
800
TMUsDifferent
160
40
ROPsDifferent
64
16
SM CountDifferent
20
N/A
L1 CacheDifferent
48 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 CacheDifferent
2 MB
512 KB
Compute UnitsDifferent
N/A
10

Theoretical Performance

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080AMD Radeon HD 6790
Pixel RateDifferent
110.9 GPixel/s
13.44 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
277.3 GTexel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)Different
138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)
N/A
FP32 (float)Different
8.873 TFLOPS
1,344.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
277.3 GFLOPS (1:32)
N/A

Board Design

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080AMD Radeon HD 6790
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
267 mm10.5 inches
198 mm7.8 inches
HeightDifferent
112 mm4.4 inches
N/A
WidthDifferent
40 mm1.6 inches
N/A
TDPDifferent
180 W
150 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
OutputsDifferent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power ConnectorsDifferent
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Board NumberDifferent
PG413 SKU 0
C220, 109-C22237-00

Graphics Features

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080AMD Radeon HD 6790
DirectXDifferent
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGLDifferent
4.6
4.4
OpenCLDifferent
3.0
1.2
VulkanDifferent
1.3
N/A
CUDADifferent
6.1
N/A
Shader ModelDifferent
6.8
5.0

Comparison Summary

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