NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 5600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 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

7% slightly better overall score

3570 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

77 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

56 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

69 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

291% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1479 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

609.00 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

48650 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37453 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

76653 points

292% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

62239 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

53743 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1130 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1560 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

99.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

199.68 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

6.39 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

37% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

37% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

135th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 5600 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5600 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5600 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5600 over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.