NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 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

68% significantly better overall score

2281 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4328 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

390.99 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

44601 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

49182 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

0.78% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54191 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

52261 points

167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

45779 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

53514 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1257 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1340 MHz

24% 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

31% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

185 W

35% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

140% significantly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

192.96 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

6.18 TFLOPS

1% 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

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

192nd 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

GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 580 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 580 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 580 also has a slightly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 580 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 580 has a slightly lower TDP at 185 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 GeForce GTX 980 Ti over the Radeon RX 580.