NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon Vega 6

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 6, 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

1118% significantly better overall score

315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

604% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

823 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

471% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7003 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

703% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6797 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

509% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

7199 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

597% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6854 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

258% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1700 MHz

57% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

45 W

455% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

659% significantly higher pixel rate

13.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

364% significantly higher texture rate

40.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

633% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

633% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

370th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2021 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

4.6

GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon Vega 6 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti beats the Radeon Vega 6 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 6 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 6 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 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 Vega 6.