AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1600MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +163%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +63%

7078

GeForce GTX 980

4322

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

165W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GM204

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

398 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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