nvidia

Brand

6GB GDDR5

Memory

2816

Cores

336.6 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

$649 Jun 2015 View Details

amd

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

2304

Cores

256 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon RX 480

$229 Jun 2016 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6GB GDDR5 250W $649 Jun 2015

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

$649 • Jun 2015

Radeon RX 480

$229 • Jun 2016

AMD Radeon RX 480

8GB GDDR5 150W $229 Jun 2016

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti	AMD Radeon RX 480
Memory Size	6 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	250 W	150 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1076 MHz	1266 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	336.6 GB/s	256 GB/s
Process Size	28nm	14nm
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 4.0
Shading Units	2816	2304
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	176	144
ROPs	96	32
Memory Bus	384-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1753 MHz	2000 MHz
Pixel Rate	103.3 GPixel/s	40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	336.6 GTexel/s	256 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	6.06 GFLOPS	5.834 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	3.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	601 mm²	232 mm²
Transistors	8000 Million	5700 Million
Required PSU	600 W	450 W
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	GlobalFoundries

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

6010 (+51%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

3980

AMD Radeon RX 480

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

49950 (+29%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

38595

AMD Radeon RX 480

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

73.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

FPS

AMD Radeon RX 480

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

13771 (+60%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

8582

AMD Radeon RX 480

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+75%)

AVG 186 FPS

MIN 169 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+100%)

AVG 150 FPS

MIN 137 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+97%)

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+46%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+68%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+78%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+45%)

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+34%)

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+42%)

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+38%)

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 101 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+36%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+33%)

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+30%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 114 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+17%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+14%)

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+20%)

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+17%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+14%)

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Radeon RX 480

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Winner

Loser

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