NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 112.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1275MHz vs 1216MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +90%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 +141%

4330

Radeon RX 560

1796

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 +500%

18

Radeon RX 560

3

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 +191%

35

Radeon RX 560

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 +195%

62

Radeon RX 560

21

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 +6%

100

Radeon RX 560

94

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

75W

450 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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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