nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2048

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

$549 Sep 2014 View Details

amd

Brand

8GB HBM2

Memory

4096

Cores

483.8 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

$499 Aug 2017 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

4GB GDDR5 165W $549 Sep 2014

GeForce GTX 980

$549 • Sep 2014

Radeon RX Vega 64

$499 • Aug 2017

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

8GB HBM2 295W $499 Aug 2017

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
Memory Size	4 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	HBM2
TDP	165 W	295 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1216 MHz	1546 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	224.4 GB/s	483.8 GB/s
Process Size	28nm	14nm
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 5.0
Shading Units	2048	4096
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	128	256
ROPs	64	64
Memory Bus	256-bit	2048-bit
Memory Clock	1753 MHz	945 MHz
Pixel Rate	77.82 GPixel/s	98.94 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	224.4 GTexel/s	483.8 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	4.981 GFLOPS	12.66 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	4.00 MB
Die Size	398 mm²	495 mm²
Transistors	5200 Million	12500 Million
Required PSU	450 W	600 W
Power Connectors	2x 6-pin	2x 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	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

7509 (+110%)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

33492

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

52807 (+58%)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

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

90.6 FPS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

11113

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

14143 (+27%)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Game Benchmarks Comparison (213 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+34%)

AVG 193 FPS

MIN 159 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 144 FPS

MIN 131 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+29%)

AVG 150 FPS

MIN 134 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 116 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+30%)

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+17%)

AVG 135 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 115 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+29%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+30%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+63%)

AVG 117 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+78%)

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+81%)

AVG 47 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+68%)

AVG 146 FPS

MIN 133 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+70%)

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+80%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 41 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 Vega 64 (+87%)

AVG 176 FPS

MIN 164 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+111%)

AVG 114 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 54 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+112%)

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+82%)

AVG 135 FPS

MIN 92 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+89%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+100%)

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Wins!

Based on 213 benchmarks across 71 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 980

+56.4%

Avg FPS

Radeon RX Vega 64