GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon VII, which features core clock speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon VII		27400 points
GeForce GTX 1080		21942 points
	Difference: 5458 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (64%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon VII should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
	Difference: 720896 (220%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII will be much (about 31%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1080. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78880 (31%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be just a bit (more or less 15%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon VII, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13248 (15%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.