NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 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

7241 points

88% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

147 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

108 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

131 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

62 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

12827 points

121% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

1515.19 points

182% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

102988 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

70085 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

131084 points

571% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

100963 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

114437 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

2321 MHz

115% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

2581 MHz

139% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

384 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

230 W

8% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

59% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

413 Gigatexels/s

118% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

117% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

10% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

10% slightly more texture mapping units

160

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

64th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2021 March

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 6700 XT benchmarks

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

The Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 XT 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 XT has significantly more memory with 12 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 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 230 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 Radeon RX 6700 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.