NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon VII
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 295W)
AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1750MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
6.06 TFLOPS
Radeon VII
+121%
13.44 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
5789
Radeon VII
+54%
8923
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
2807
Radeon VII
+55%
4374
Blender
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
544
Radeon VII
+41%
772
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
24
Radeon VII
+83%
44
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
45
Radeon VII
+82%
82
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
75
Radeon VII
+52%
114
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+9%
72
Radeon VII
66
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+19%
74
Radeon VII
62
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
120
Radeon VII
+13%
136
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce 900
Generation
Vega II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1400 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
60
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
3840
176
TMUs
240
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
112.0 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
420.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.88 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.44 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.360 TFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
295W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 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 20
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
Vega 20 XT
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
8 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
