AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

amd

Brand

8GB HBM2

Memory

3584

Cores

409.6 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX Vega 56

N/A Aug 2017 View Details

nvidia

Brand

6GB GDDR5

Memory

2816

Cores

336.6 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

N/A Jun 2015 View Details

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

8GB HBM2 210W N/A Aug 2017

Radeon RX Vega 56

$399 • Aug 2017

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

$649 • Jun 2015

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6GB GDDR5 250W N/A Jun 2015

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory Size	8 GB	6 GB
Memory Type	HBM2	GDDR5
TDP	210 W	250 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1471 MHz	1076 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	336.6 GB/s
Process Size	14nm	28nm
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	3584	2816
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	224	176
ROPs	64	96
Memory Bus	2048-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	800 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	94.14 GPixel/s	103.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	409.6 GTexel/s	336.6 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	10.54 GFLOPS	6.06 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	3.00 MB
Die Size	495 mm²	601 mm²
Transistors	12500 Million	8000 Million
Required PSU	550 W	600 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	GlobalFoundries	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

6723 (+12%)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

6010

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

47815

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

49950 (+4%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

81.2 FPS (+11%)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

73.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

13099

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

13771 (+5%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Game Benchmarks Comparison (198 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+1%)

AVG 187 FPS

MIN 159 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 186 FPS

MIN 169 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+14%)

AVG 150 FPS

MIN 137 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 132 FPS

MIN 118 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+12%)

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+1%)

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 121 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+13%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+14%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+11%)

AVG 103 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+22%)

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+21%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+14%)

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 101 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+16%)

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+25%)

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+28%)

AVG 155 FPS

MIN 144 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 114 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+43%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+47%)

AVG 47 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+25%)

AVG 119 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+29%)

AVG 88 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 56 (+38%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Wins!

Based on 195 benchmarks across 66 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

+8.3%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti