NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT 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 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (2250MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT +362%

23.04 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4322

Radeon RX 6900 XT +384%

20932

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

Radeon RX 6900 XT +338%

79

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

Radeon RX 6900 XT +305%

142

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

Radeon RX 6900 XT +212%

194

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

60

Radeon RX 6900 XT +111%

127

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

Radeon RX 6900 XT +145%

152

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

Radeon RX 6900 XT +89%

189

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

-

2048

Shading Units

5120

128

TMUs

320

64

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

720.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

46.08 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1440 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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