Product Compare

AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Feb 2019 Sep 2014
Generation Vega II GeForce 900
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1400 MHz 1127 MHz
Boost Clock 1750 MHz 1216 MHz
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 16GB 4GB
Memory Type HBM2 GDDR5
Memory Bus 4096bit 256bit
Bandwidth 1020GB/s 224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 60
Shading Units 3840 2048
TMUs 240 128
ROPs 64 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 4 MB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 112.0 GPixel/s 77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 420.0 GTexel/s 155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 26.88 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 13.44 TFLOPS 4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 3.360 TFLOPS 155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Vega 20 GM204
GPU Variant Vega 20 XT GM204-400-A1
Architecture GCN 5.1 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 7 nm 28 nm
Transistors 13.23 billion 5.2 billion
Die Size 331 mm² 398 mm²
Board Design
TDP 295W 165W
Suggested PSU 600 W 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
Shader Model 6.7 6.4
CUDA 5.2