AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (1905MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +60%

9.754 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5700 XT +64%

9482

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5757

Blender

Radeon RX 5700 XT +433%

2950

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

553

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +62%

39

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +64%

74

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +48%

111

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

65

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +10%

72

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +8%

80

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +55%

186

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

Radeon RX 5700 XT

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Jun 2015

Navi

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2816

160

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

GM200

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

8 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

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