NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon 530

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon 530 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3839 points
1781% significantly better overall score
204 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

76 FPS
70 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS
55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
47 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points
475% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6960 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points
579% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
8039 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points
591% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points
582% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
7006 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz
5% slightly higher boost clock speed
1024 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
49% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
499% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s
601% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s
1159% significantly higher pixel rate
8.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s
670% significantly higher texture rate
24.58 Gigatexels/s

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
1100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586
429th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon 530 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card is better than the Radeon 530 in our tests.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 980 Ti over the Radeon 530.

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