NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Apr 2018
Generation
GeForce 900
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1257 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1340 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
2304
TMUs
128
144
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Compute Units
-
36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
42.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
193.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
6.175 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
385.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.175 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Polaris 20
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Polaris 20 XTX(215-0910038)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
185W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.4