NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1266MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +3%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

2816

Shading Units

2304

176

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

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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