NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 GRE 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 260W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (2245MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +823%

45.98 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4322

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +416%

22344

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 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

1287 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2245 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

-

2048

Shading Units

5120

128

TMUs

320

64

ROPs

160

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

359.2 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

718.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

91.96 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.98 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1437 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

260W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 31

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XL (215-145000206)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

529 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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