Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Boost Clock1216MHz
Lower TDP (165W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+15%
5733
GeForce GTX 980
4981
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Sep 2014
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
2816
Shading Units
2048
176
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
165W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GM204
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.3
Shader Model
6.4