AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
35
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Value for money (0-100)
53.18
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Pascal
Cayman
Code name
GP104
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
16 August 2016 (5 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$499.99
$17.44
Price now
$230 (0.5x MSRP)
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Value for money
100.00
Cayman
GPU code name
N17E-G3
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
2560
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Core clock speed
1607 MHz
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Boost Clock
1771 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
7,200 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
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Texture fill rate
283.4
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Floating-point performance
9,068 gflops
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Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
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CUDA cores
2560
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
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Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
2,640 million
Number of transistors
7,200 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
150 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Laptop size
large
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
PCIe 3.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
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Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
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Shared memory
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
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G-SYNC support
+
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Multi monitor support
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile is the additional functionality.

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VR Ready
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Multi Monitor
+
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3D Vision
+
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GPU Boost
3.0
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CUDA
+
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Multi-Projection
+
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Ansel
+
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Virtual Reality
+
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ShadowWorks
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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Shader Model
6.4
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OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 102 84 73 62 49 28
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 137 106 104 102 75.2 41.6
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 221 194 178 123 89 54
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 234 181 115 83.3 56.6 29.7
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 222 156 141 137 94.1 49.8
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cayman

Cheaper ($17.44 vs $230 (0.5x MSRP))

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

75.4% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (2560 vs 1536)

Finer manufacturing process technology (16 nm vs 40 nm)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile .

AMD Cayman versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile performance benchmarks comparison

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