NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1226MHz vs 1216MHz)

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +13%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

4.394 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1074 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

2048

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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