AMD Radeon 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

AMD Radeon 520
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 $699
320 Shaders
1GB GDDR5
1030MHz
2560 Shaders
8GB GDDR5X
1733MHz
FP32
0.66 TFLOPS
FP32
8.87 TFLOPS
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FP16
0.14 TFLOPS
Form Factor
PCIe Card
1.0-Slots
Form Factor
PCIe Card
2.0-Slots
TDP
Unknown
TDP
180W
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Power Connectors
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1x 8-Pin
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GB5 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB5 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 Metal N/A
0%
GB5 Metal N/A
0%
GB5 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB5 Vulkan N/A
0%
OCT 2020.1 N/A
0%
OCT 2020.1 N/A
0%
OCT Metal N/A
0%
OCT Metal N/A
0%
Manufacturer
AMD
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
AMD
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Architecture
GCN 1
Architecture
Pascal
Family
Radeon RX 500
Family
GeForce 10
Codename
Hainan
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Variant
Banks Pro
Codename
NV134
GP104
Variant
GP104-400-A1
Market Segment
Desktop
Market Segment
Desktop
Release Date
4/18/2017
Release Date
5/27/2016
Foundry
TSMC
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Foundry
TSMC
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Fabrication Node
28nm
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Fabrication Node
16FF
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Die Size
56 mm²
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Die Size
314 mm²
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Transistor Count
690 Million
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Transistor Count
7.2 Billion
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Transistor Density
12.32M/mm²
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Transistor Density
22.93M/mm²
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Form
PCIe Card
Form
PCIe Card
Shading Units
320 Shaders
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Shading Units
2560 Shaders
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Texture Mapping Units
20 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
160 TMUs
Render Output Units
4 ROPs
Render Output Units
64 ROPs
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Streaming Multiprocessors
20 SMs
Compute Units
5 CUs
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Graphics Processing Clusters
4 GPCs
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1030MHz
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1607MHz Base
1733MHz
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FP16
0.14 TFLOPS
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FP32
0.66 TFLOPS
FP32
8.87 TFLOPS
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FP64
0.04 TFLOPS
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FP64
0.28 TFLOPS
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Pixel Fillrate
4.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
110.912 GPixel/s
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Texture Fillrate
20.6 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
277.28 GTexel/s
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L1
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16KB/CU
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L1
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48KB/SM
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L2
128KB Shared
L2
2MB Shared
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1GB
GDDR5
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8GB
GDDR5X
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Bus Width
64Bit
Bus Width
256Bit
Clock
1125MHz
Transfer Rate
4.5GT/s
Bandwidth
36GB/s
Clock
1250MHz
Transfer Rate
2.5GT/s
Bandwidth
80GB/s
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TDP
Unknown
TDP
180W
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1x DVI-I Dual-Link
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1x DisplayPort 1.2
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1x DVI-D Dual-Link
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3x DisplayPort 1.4
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1x HDMI 2.0
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Max Resolution
4096x2160
Max Resolution
7680x4320
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
30Hz
Variable Refresh Rate
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Variable Refresh Rate
G-Sync
FreeSync
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Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
3
Multi Monitor Support
3
Content Protection
HDCP 1.4
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No Encoders
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Model
2x NVENC 4
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Codec
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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No Decoders
Model
NVDEC 3
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Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
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VP9
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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Direct X
12
Direct 3D
11_1
Direct X
12
Direct 3D
12_1
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
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GFX
6
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Shader Model
6.7
CUDA
6.1
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PureVideo HD
VP8
VDPAU
Feature Set H
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1x Fan
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1x Fan
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Power Connectors
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1x 8-Pin
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Slots Required
1.0
PCIe Version
3.0
PCIe Lanes
8
Slots Required
2.0
PCIe Version
3.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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Multi GPU Support
Supported
Type
4-way SLI - 2-way SLI HB
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Height
112 mm (4.41 in)
Width
267 mm (10.51 in)
Depth
40 mm (1.57 in)
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