NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 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
5776 points
50% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS
116 FPS
40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS
87 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
103 FPS
52 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
50 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points
188% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2007 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points
1351.36 points
151% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points
125070 points
540% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points
92543 points
111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points
107859 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz
1941 MHz
80% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz
2450 MHz
127% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
10 GiB
66% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
139% significantly larger memory bus width
160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s
5% slightly higher memory bandwidth
320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
175 W
42% much lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s
156.8 Gigapixels/s
51% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s
352.8 Gigatexels/s
86% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS
11.29 TFLOPS
86% significantly 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

96
49% significantly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586
86th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June
2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 6700 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6700 beats the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700 has a significantly 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 6700 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6700 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 has a much lower TDP at 175 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 6700 is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.

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