NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon RX 580G

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1330MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G +23%

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 580G

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

1257 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1330 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

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

42.56 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

191.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.129 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.129 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

383.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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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