AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 XTX 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 7950 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 207% (3300MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 355W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7950 XTX +1238%

81.1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2015

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2200 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

3300 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

96

Compute Units

-

6144

Shading Units

2816

384

TMUs

176

192

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

96

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

633.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

1267 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

162.2 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

81.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

2.534 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

GM200

Navi 31 XTX+

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

8 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

355W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

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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