NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1175MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (45W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +187%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

2816

Shading Units

896

176

TMUs

56

96

ROPs

16

-

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

18.80 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

45W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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