AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (2310MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +374%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +396%

21457

GeForce GTX 980

4322

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +377%

86

GeForce GTX 980

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +345%

156

GeForce GTX 980

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +245%

214

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +116%

130

GeForce GTX 980

60

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +145%

152

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +89%

189

GeForce GTX 980

100

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

2048

320

TMUs

128

ROPs

64

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

165W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

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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