NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +1197%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

R600

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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