AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT 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 6900 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2250MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6900 XT +280%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6900 XT +263%

20915

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5758

Blender

Radeon RX 6900 XT +421%

2883

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

553

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +229%

79

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +215%

142

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +158%

194

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +76%

127

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

72

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +105%

152

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +57%

189

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

Radeon RX 6900 XT

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 2015

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

2816

320

TMUs

176

128

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

720.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

46.08 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

1440 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GM200

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

8 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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