NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 VS AMD Radeon RX 580

nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2048

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 980

N/A Sep 2014 View Details

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amd

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

2304

Cores

256 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 580

N/A Apr 2017 View Details

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

4GB GDDR5 165W N/A Sep 2014

GeForce GTX 980

$549 • Sep 2014

Radeon RX 580

$229 • Apr 2017

AMD Radeon RX 580

8GB GDDR5 185W N/A Apr 2017

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980	AMD Radeon RX 580
Memory Size	4 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	165 W	185 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1216 MHz	1340 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	224.4 GB/s	256 GB/s
Process Size	28nm	14nm
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 4.0
Shading Units	2048	2304
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	128	144
ROPs	64	32
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1753 MHz	2000 MHz
Pixel Rate	77.82 GPixel/s	42.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	224.4 GTexel/s	256 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	4.981 GFLOPS	6.175 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	398 mm²	232 mm²
Transistors	5200 Million	5700 Million
Required PSU	450 W	450 W
Power Connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 8-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

3574

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

4176 (+17%)

AMD Radeon RX 580

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

33492

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

40514 (+21%)

AMD Radeon RX 580

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

FPS

AMD Radeon RX 580

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

11113 (+26%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

8835

AMD Radeon RX 580

Game Benchmarks Comparison (198 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+23%)

AVG 144 FPS

MIN 131 FPS

Radeon RX 580

AVG 117 FPS

MIN 105 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+40%)

AVG 116 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

Radeon RX 580

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+40%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

Radeon RX 580

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+20%)

AVG 115 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

Radeon RX 580

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 92 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+18%)

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

Radeon RX 580

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+23%)

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Radeon RX 580

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 (+3%)

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

Radeon RX 580

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+4%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 (+0%)

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Radeon RX 580 (+0%)

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

Radeon RX 580 (+2%)

AVG 89 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX 580 (+4%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+4%)

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+9%)

AVG 102 FPS

MIN 96 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+22%)

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 54 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+24%)

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+18%)

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+21%)

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+26%)

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX 580 Wins!

Based on 198 benchmarks across 66 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 980

+0.9%

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 580