GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1600MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
6060
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+116%
13110
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
5789
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+20%
6973
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
2807
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+19%
3348
Blender
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
544
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+36%
742
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Jun 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1382 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
384bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
2816
Shading Units
4096
176
TMUs
256
96
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
300W
600 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
Vega 10
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX AIR
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
8 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
