NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1284MHz vs 1216MHz)

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +5%

5.259 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 +14%

4322

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

3759

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

41.09 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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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