NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +5%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

2816

Shading Units

2816

176

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Vesuvius

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 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

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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