NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMD Radeon HD 6990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +137%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 6990

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

2816

Shading Units

1536

176

TMUs

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.56 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.550 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

637.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Antilles

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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