NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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 263W)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 100% (2430MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT +649%

37.32 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4322

Radeon RX 7800 XT +363%

20031

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

Radeon RX 7800 XT +355%

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

Radeon RX 7800 XT +351%

158

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

Radeon RX 7800 XT +277%

234

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

60

Radeon RX 7800 XT +133%

140

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

Radeon RX 7800 XT +125%

140

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

Radeon RX 7800 XT +90%

190

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 7800 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1295 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2430 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2438 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

624.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

-

2048

Shading Units

3840

128

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

233.3 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

583.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

74.65 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.32 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1166 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

263W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 32

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

28.1 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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