NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 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 7900 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (2394MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT +933%

51.48 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4322

Radeon RX 7900 XT +522%

26911

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

Radeon RX 7900 XT +466%

102

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

Radeon RX 7900 XT +485%

205

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

Radeon RX 7900 XT +382%

299

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

60

Radeon RX 7900 XT +183%

170

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

Radeon RX 7900 XT +174%

170

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

Radeon RX 7900 XT +90%

190

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1387 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2394 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

84

-

2048

Shading Units

5376

128

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

192

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

459.6 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

804.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

103.0 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

51.48 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.609 TFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 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 XT (215-145000156)

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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