AMD Radeon Pro W6900X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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AMD Radeon Pro W6900X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 100% (2150MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6900X +263%

22.02 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Pro W6900X +261%

1998

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

553

Radeon Pro W6900X

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Jun 2015

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2150 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

2816

320

TMUs

176

128

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

275.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

688.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

44.03 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

1376 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GM200

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

8 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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