NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 1% (1216MHz vs 1206MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (120W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 +17%

4322

Radeon RX 470

3678

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 +50%

18

Radeon RX 470

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 +40%

35

Radeon RX 470

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 +55%

62

Radeon RX 470

40

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 +82%

62

Radeon RX 470

34

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 +2%

100

Radeon RX 470

98

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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