AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (45W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1216MHz vs 1175MHz)

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

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +136%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

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

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

165W

200 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

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 21 XL

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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