AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1266MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +3%

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4164

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +38%

5754

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +45%

544

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +41%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +28%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +50%

75

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +105%

74

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +13%

120

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jun 2015

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2816

144

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

96

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM200

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

601 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320 OEM

2

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2

3

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

4

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

5

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

6

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS

7

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

8

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD FirePro W2100

9

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

10

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Related News

1

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

2

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

3

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

4

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

5

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

6

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

7

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

8

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

9

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

10

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage