NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1560MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +44%

7.188 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4324

Radeon RX 5600 XT +78%

7697

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

Radeon RX 5600 XT +72%

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

Radeon RX 5600 XT +82%

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

Radeon RX 5600 XT +59%

99

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 +20%

60

Radeon RX 5600 XT

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 +1%

62

Radeon RX 5600 XT

61

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

Radeon RX 5600 XT +70%

170

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 10

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 8-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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