AMD Radeon RX 6400 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6400

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6400 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 6400 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 91% (2321MHz vs 1216MHz)

Lower TDP (53W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6400

3.565 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +39%

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6400

3579

GeForce GTX 980 +20%

4322

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6400

8

GeForce GTX 980 +125%

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6400

20

GeForce GTX 980 +75%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6400

35

GeForce GTX 980 +77%

62

Radeon RX 6400

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1923 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2321 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

12

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

74.27 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

7.130 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.565 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

222.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

53W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 24 XL (215-135000046)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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