NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5600

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 199.98

$ 679.87 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

3570 points

43% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

77 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

56 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

69 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

Identical

33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

195% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1479 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

609.00 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

48650 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37453 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

76653 points

405% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

62239 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

53743 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1130 MHz

0.36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

1560 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

150 W

10% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

99.84 Gigapixels/s

28% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

199.68 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

6.39 TFLOPS

28% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

135th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2020 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 vs Radeon RX 5600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5600 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 5600 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5600 over the GeForce GTX 980.