AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 XTX 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 7950 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 171% (3300MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 355W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7950 XTX +1528%

81.1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2200 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

3300 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

96

Compute Units

-

6144

Shading Units

2048

384

TMUs

128

192

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

96

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

633.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

1267 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

162.2 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

81.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

2.534 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 31 XTX+

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

355W

TDP

165W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

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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