NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 224.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1284MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +15%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

5.259 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +53%

5754

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

3759

Blender

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +43%

544

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

379

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

2816

Shading Units

2048

176

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

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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