NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1471MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +73%

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5754

Radeon RX Vega 56 +19%

6878

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Radeon RX Vega 56 +25%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Radeon RX Vega 56 +26%

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

Radeon RX Vega 56 +16%

87

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +56%

72

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

Radeon RX Vega 56 +22%

91

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +9%

120

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

-

2816

Shading Units

3584

176

TMUs

224

96

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

210W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Vega 10

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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