NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 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

20954 points

445% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

421 FPS

345 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

302 FPS

244 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

380 FPS

328 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

172 FPS

124 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

7249 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

3144.45 points

485% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

160380 points

265% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

194640 points

307% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

2970 MHz

176% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

16 GiB

166% significantly 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

640 GB/s

90% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

380.2 Gigapixels/s

268% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

48.7 TFLOPS

703% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

8th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

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

GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 9070 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 9070 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.