NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 140% (2581MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (230W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT +117%

13.21 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5758

Radeon RX 6700 XT +121%

12772

Blender

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

553

Radeon RX 6700 XT +196%

1642

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Radeon RX 6700 XT +116%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Radeon RX 6700 XT +113%

96

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

Radeon RX 6700 XT +89%

142

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

72

Radeon RX 6700 XT +15%

83

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

Radeon RX 6700 XT +40%

104

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

Radeon RX 6700 XT +38%

166

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Mar 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

2321 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

2816

Shading Units

2560

176

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Navi 22

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

8 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

230W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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