AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 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 7950 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 147% (3000MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7950 XT +1195%

64.51 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

3000 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

800.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

84

Compute Units

-

5376

Shading Units

2048

336

TMUs

128

192

ROPs

64

-

84

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

80 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

576.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

1008 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

129.0 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

64.51 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

165W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 31 XT+

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

529 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

2

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

3

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

4

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs ATI FirePro V8800

5

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

6

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs ATI FirePro V5700

7

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 4670

8

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

9

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

10

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs ATI Radeon X1650 GTO

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU