NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 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 335W)
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 115% (2310MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
6.06 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+290%
23.65 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
5789
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+272%
21537
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
2807
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+275%
10545
Blender
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
544
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+455%
3023
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
24
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+258%
86
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
45
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+246%
156
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
75
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+185%
214
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
72
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+80%
130
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
74
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+105%
152
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
120
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+57%
189
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
May 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1860 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
2310 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
576.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
80
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
5120
176
TMUs
320
96
ROPs
128
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
80
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
3 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
295.7 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
739.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
47.31 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.65 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1478 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
335W
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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
Navi 21
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 21 KXTX
(215-121000289)
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
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
