NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1600MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +163%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

2048

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Vega 10

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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