NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R5 220 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon R5 220 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 220 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 8.528GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 220 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +4689%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 220 OEM

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon R5 220 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

533 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

8.528GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

2048

Shading Units

80

128

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Cedar

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cedar PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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