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Side-by-side comparison of specifications and performance

Performance Comparison

AMD Radeon RX 480

80%
80%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

125%
125%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti is approximately 45% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationAMD Radeon RX 480NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
Ellesmere
GM200
CoresDifferent
2304
2816
TMUsDifferent
144
176
ROPsDifferent
32
96
Memory SizeDifferent
8 GB
6 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Bus WidthDifferent
256 bit
384 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureAMD Radeon RX 480NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU NameDifferent
Ellesmere
GM200
GPU VariantDifferent
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
GM200-310-A1
ArchitectureDifferent
GCN 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
FoundryDifferent
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process SizeDifferent
14 nm
28 nm
TransistorsDifferent
5,700 million
8,000 million
DensityDifferent
24.6M / mm²
13.3M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
232 mm²
601 mm²
Chip PackageDifferent
BGA-1401
BGA-2152

Graphics Card

FeatureAMD Radeon RX 480NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Release DateDifferent
Jun 29th, 2016
Jun 2nd, 2015
GenerationDifferent
Arctic Islands(RX 400)
GeForce 900
PredecessorDifferent
Pirate Islands
GeForce 700
SuccessorDifferent
Polaris
GeForce 10
ProductionDifferent
Active
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
229 USD
649 USD
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
86 in our database
169 in our database

Clock Speeds

FeatureAMD Radeon RX 480NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Base ClockDifferent
1120 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost ClockDifferent
1266 MHz
1076 MHz
Memory ClockDifferent
2000 MHz8 Gbps effective
1753 MHz7 Gbps effective

Memory

FeatureAMD Radeon RX 480NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory SizeDifferent
8 GB
6 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory BusDifferent
256 bit
384 bit
BandwidthDifferent
256.0 GB/s
336.6 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureAMD Radeon RX 480NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Shading UnitsDifferent
2304
2816
TMUsDifferent
144
176
ROPsDifferent
32
96
Compute UnitsDifferent
36
N/A
L1 CacheDifferent
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 CacheDifferent
2 MB
3 MB
SMM CountDifferent
N/A
22

Theoretical Performance

FeatureAMD Radeon RX 480NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Pixel RateDifferent
40.51 GPixel/s
103.3 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
182.3 GTexel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)Different
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
N/A
FP32 (float)Different
5.834 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
189.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

Board Design

FeatureAMD Radeon RX 480NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
240 mm9.4 inches
267 mm10.5 inches
HeightDifferent
95 mm3.7 inches
111 mm4.4 inches
WidthDifferent
35 mm1.4 inches
40 mm1.6 inches
TDPDifferent
150 W
250 W
Suggested PSUDifferent
450 W
600 W
OutputsDifferent
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Power ConnectorsDifferent
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board NumberDifferent
C940, 109-D00947-00_02
PG600 SKU 30

Graphics Features

FeatureAMD Radeon RX 480NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
DirectXDifferent
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCLDifferent
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
Shader ModelDifferent
6.7
6.8
CUDADifferent
N/A
5.2

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