AMD Radeon Pro W5700X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2040MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 205W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W5700X +109%

10.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5700X

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1243 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2040 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

130.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

326.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

20.89 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

652.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

205W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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