AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon R9 370X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1216MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +88%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Sep 2014

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

GM204

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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