NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R7 350

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon R7 350

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 350 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 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 350 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +508%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 350

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon R7 350

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO MOCHA

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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