AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 XT 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 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 100% (2430MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 263W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 XT +649%

37.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7800 XT +362%

20026

GeForce GTX 980

4330

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +366%

84

GeForce GTX 980

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +357%

160

GeForce GTX 980

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +300%

248

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +133%

140

GeForce GTX 980

60

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +125%

140

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +90%

190

GeForce GTX 980

100

Radeon RX 7800 XT

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GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1295 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2430 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

2048

240

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

233.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

583.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

74.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

263W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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