NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R9 370

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon R9 370

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 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 25% (1216MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 370 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (110W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +99%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370

2.496 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon R9 370

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

925 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

78.00 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.496 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

156.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

110W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Trinidad

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

212 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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