AMD Radeon RX 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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Radeon RX 570 compared with GeForce GTX 1080

	AMDRadeon RX 570	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1080
Overview
Released
Released	April 2017	May 2016
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	GCN 4	Pascal
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,048	2,560
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,244 MHz	1,733 MHz or 1,759 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	Fourth-generation GCN (Polaris), 128 texture units, 32 ROPs and 5.7 billion transistors. AMD's retained support page is labelled RX 570 (OEM) and includes slower OEM clocks; the original retail baseline and both named MSI ARMOR configurations use the published maximum 1,244 MHz. Photo shows MSI ARMOR 4G, not an AMD reference board.	GP104; 7.2 billion transistors; 160 texture units and 64 ROPs. Main specifications and photo describe the original Founders Edition; the later 11 Gbps memory version is represented by MSI's GAMING+ 8G in its default Gaming mode.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	14 nm (PCWorld and Les Numériques)	16 nm FinFET
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated hardware ray accelerators	No dedicated RT Cores
AI cores
AI cores	–	No Tensor Cores
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	No NVIDIA DLSS
Base clock
Base clock	AMD publishes a 926–1,168 MHz OEM range; the original retail baseline is 1,168 MHz (PCWorld). Both named MSI ARMOR boards publish up to 1,244 MHz core frequency without a separate base figure.	1607 MHz (original Founders Edition); MSI GAMING+ 8G has 1620 MHz base and 1759 MHz boost in Gaming mode, 1632/1771 MHz in OC mode and 1607/1733 MHz in Silent mode.
Cache
Cache	–	2048 KB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	4 GB GDDR5 or 8 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5X
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s or –	320 GB/s or –
Memory detail
Memory detail	MSI ARMOR 4G and 8G both specify 7,000 MHz effective GDDR5. AMD publishes up to 224 GB/s for the GPU, but MSI does not state bandwidth separately for either capacity; the 8 GB configuration therefore omits it.	Original 10 Gbps GDDR5X; MSI GAMING+ 8G lists 11010 MHz effective memory speed. Its bandwidth is not published in the maker's datasheet and is omitted from that configuration.
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	150 W (better)	180 W
Interface
Interface	–	PCIe 3.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort, 1 × HDMI and dual-link DVI-D on both MSI ARMOR boards. AMD lists DisplayPort 1.4 HDR and HDMI 4K60 support, but DVI as No; partner outputs differ.	3 × DisplayPort 1.4, 1 × HDMI 2.0b and 1 × dual-link DVI-D; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2 (MSI Founders Edition). NVIDIA's launch table calls the DVI connector DVI-I; MSI's actual card specification identifies DVI-D.
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	–	7680 × 4320 (MSI Founders Edition)
Power connector
Power connector	One 8-pin on both MSI ARMOR boards	1 × 8-pin (Founders Edition); 1 × 6-pin and 1 × 8-pin (MSI GAMING+ 8G)
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	450 W	500 W
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	246 × 130 × 39 mm and 622 g for both MSI ARMOR 4G and 8G; MSI publishes PCI Express x16 without a generation in these datasheets	269 × 111 × 40 mm and 1100 g (MSI Founders Edition); 277 × 140 × 42 mm and 1100 g (MSI GAMING+ 8G)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264 and H.265/HEVC encoding and decoding; HDMI 4K60 support	HEVC 10-bit encode and decode