NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 570

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 570 8 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

99% significantly better overall score

1929 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

40 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

40 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

50% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3841 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

332.38 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

40200 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

41087 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

42870 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

45157 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

41113 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47019 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1168 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1244 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 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

159% significantly higher pixel rate

39.81 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

159.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

5.10 TFLOPS

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

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

213th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 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

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 570 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti beats the Radeon RX 570 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 570 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 570 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 570 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 570 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is faster than the Radeon RX 570.