NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

547% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

306% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

505% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

356% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

509% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10718 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

371% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

319% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 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

2000 MHz

85% 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

545% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

195% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

195% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

450% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

450% 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

309th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2021 January

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 8 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti beats the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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 8 has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 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 Vega 8.