NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 5300

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 AMD Radeon RX 5300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 3GB VRAM Radeon RX 5300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5300 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1645MHz vs 1216MHz)

Lower TDP (100W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +7%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5300

4.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 5300

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1327 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1645 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

2048

Shading Units

1408

128

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.64 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

144.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.265 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.632 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

289.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 14

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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