AMD Radeon RX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon RX 460

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 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 RX 460 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1216MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +131%

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 460

1730

GeForce GTX 980 +149%

4322

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 460

3

GeForce GTX 980 +500%

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 460

12

GeForce GTX 980 +191%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 460

22

GeForce GTX 980 +181%

62

Radeon RX 460

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2014

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

67.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

2.150 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.150 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

134.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GM204

Baffin PRO

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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