NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R9 350

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 350 2 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

2494 points

739% significantly better overall score

297 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

218% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10504 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

247% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9946 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

331% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8856 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

925 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

60 W

175% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

381st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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

4.3

GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R9 350 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the Radeon R9 350 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 980 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R9 350 has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the Radeon R9 350.