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GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 560 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1275MHz vs 1076MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti +132%
6060
Radeon RX 560
2611
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980 Ti +212%
5789
Radeon RX 560
1855
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 980 Ti +251%
2807
Radeon RX 560
799
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti +700%
24
Radeon RX 560
3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti +275%
45
Radeon RX 560
12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti +257%
75
Radeon RX 560
21
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti +27%
120
Radeon RX 560
94

Graphics Card

Jun 2015
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz
Base Clock
1175 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
1275 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz

Memory

6GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
16
2816
Shading Units
1024
176
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.40 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
81.60 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.611 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.611 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W
TDP
75W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GM200
GPU Name
Polaris 21
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
8 billion
Transistors
3 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²

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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