AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 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 Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1546MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 64 +108%

12.66 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 64 +30%

7522

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5754

Blender

Radeon RX Vega 64 +21%

660

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

544

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +29%

31

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +37%

62

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +22%

92

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 64

56

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +28%

72

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +44%

107

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

Radeon RX Vega 64

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jun 2015

Vega

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1247 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1546 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

2816

256

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

96

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

98.94 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

395.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

25.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.66 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

791.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

295W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GM200

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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