AMD Radeon RX 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon RX 570

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 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 570 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1244MHz vs 1216MHz)

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570 +2%

5.095 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 570

3859

GeForce GTX 980 +11%

4322

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 570

18

GeForce GTX 980

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 570

34

GeForce GTX 980 +2%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 570

52

GeForce GTX 980 +19%

62

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 570

30

GeForce GTX 980 +100%

60

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 570

57

GeForce GTX 980 +8%

62

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 570

100

GeForce GTX 980

100

Radeon RX 570

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

232 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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