NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 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

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2250MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT +280%

23.04 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5758

Radeon RX 6900 XT +263%

20915

Blender

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

553

Radeon RX 6900 XT +421%

2883

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Radeon RX 6900 XT +229%

79

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Radeon RX 6900 XT +215%

142

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

Radeon RX 6900 XT +158%

194

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

72

Radeon RX 6900 XT +76%

127

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

Radeon RX 6900 XT +105%

152

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

Radeon RX 6900 XT +57%

189

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

2816

Shading Units

5120

176

TMUs

320

96

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

720.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

46.08 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1440 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

8 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 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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