NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 360 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1216MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (85W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +208%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

1.613 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Tobago

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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