AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235 OEM 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 R5 235 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 235 OEM

0.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +1908%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Sep 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

160

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

6.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

248.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

165W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

GM204

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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