NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
vs
AMD Radeon RX 470

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 RX 470 has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.21 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.94 TFLOPS.

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 RX 470 is based on the Ellesmere architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.

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 RX 470 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.650GHz.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 470 is 1.206 GHz.

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 RX 470 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

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

The AMD Radeon RX 470 is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The AMD Radeon RX 470 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

The AMD Radeon RX 470 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.

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.

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 RX 470 is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The AMD Radeon RX 470 published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.