Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary vs GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1980MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Lower TDP (165W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
+103%
10140
GeForce GTX 980
4981
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
+110%
9199
GeForce GTX 980
4362
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
+102%
4142
GeForce GTX 980
2049
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Sep 2014
Navi
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1680 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1980 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
2560
Shading Units
2048
160
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
126.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
316.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
20.28 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.14 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
165W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
GM204
Navi 10 XTX
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.5
Shader Model
6.4