NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II Duo to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 475W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1720MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega II Duo +182%

14.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1720 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

-

2048

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.1 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

440.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

28.18 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.09 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

7.045 TFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

475W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Vega 20

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

398 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

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