AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1284MHz 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 580 2048SP +5%

5.259 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

3770

GeForce GTX 980 +14%

4324

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

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GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

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

1284 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

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

41.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

164.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

5.259 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.259 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

328.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

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

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 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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