NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon 540

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +448%

4.981 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

32bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Lexa

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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