NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 3% (1216MHz vs 1175MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (45W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +136%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

2048

Shading Units

896

128

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

123 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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