GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1216MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 165W)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1216 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
67.20GB/s
Render Config
2048
Shading Units
-
128
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
77.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.72 GPixel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.72 GTexel/s
4.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
155.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
165W
TDP
125W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VHDCI
1x VHDCI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
R580+
GM204-400-A1
GPU Variant
R580+ XT
(215BAABKA31FG)
(215BAABKA31FG)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.384 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
3.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
3.0