NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
vs
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.73 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 8.87 TFLOPS.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X has 4096 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.05 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.60 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is based on the Fiji architecture and is equipped with 64 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Based on AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1 GPU Chip Fiji XT C8
Pascal Architecture Fiji
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 64
2560 Shader 4096
64 Render Output Units 64
160 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.251 GHz clocks.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X has a 4 GB large HBM graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.500GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type HBM
1.251 GHz Memory Clock 0.500 GHz
10.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.0 Gbps
320 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 4096 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is 1.050 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 1.050 GHz
1.733 GHz Boost Clock 1.050 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

180 W TDP 275 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is cooled by a AIO water cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial (Radiator)
1 x 70 mm Fan 1 1 x 120 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X supports HDCP in version 0 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 0
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v1.4a
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_1 DirectX 12_0
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 No
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

267 mm Length 195 mm
111 mm Height 115 mm
38 mm Width 39 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 was released in Q2/2016.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X published in Q2/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q2/2016 Release date Q2/2015
599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 649 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
1589

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
40 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
75 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
106 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
53292
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
4 GB HBM
58011

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
63883
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
4 GB HBM
65197

Geekbench 6 - Metal

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
4 GB HBM
58643

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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