NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6700S

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

3% slightly better overall score

3718 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

93 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

61 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

77 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

34 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

301% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1443 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

916.64 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

72317 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

70085 points

259% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

64266 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

74785 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1700 MHz

57% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

2000 MHz

85% 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

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 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

80 W

212% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

128 Gigapixels/s

23% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

247.5 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

7.92 TFLOPS

30% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

57% significantly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

57% significantly more texture mapping units

112

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

131st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2022 January

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 6700S comparison

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700S has a significantly 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 6700S 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6700S has slightly more memory with 8 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 6700S has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 980 Ti over the Radeon RX 6700S.