AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 126% (2430MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 263W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 XT +515%

37.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7800 XT +247%

20023

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5758

Blender

Radeon RX 7800 XT +395%

2742

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

553

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +250%

84

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +255%

160

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +230%

248

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +94%

140

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

72

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +89%

140

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +58%

190

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

Radeon RX 7800 XT

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Jun 2015

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1295 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2430 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

2816

240

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

233.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

583.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

74.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

GM200

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

8 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

263W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

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

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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