AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580G NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1330MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580G +23%

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1330 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

42.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

191.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

6.129 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.129 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

383.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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