NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 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

4478 points

16% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

91 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

67 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

79 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

38 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

8496 points

46% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

877.69 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

57679 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

58932 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

51919 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

82201 points

321% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

69383 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

73003 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1465 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1725 MHz

60% significantly 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

448 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

180 W

38% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

110.4 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

248.4 Gigatexels/s

31% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

7.95 TFLOPS

31% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

22% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

22% slightly more texture mapping units

144

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

113th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2019 July

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 5700 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5700 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 5700 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 has a slightly lower TDP at 180 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.