NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 6400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6400 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6400

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 130.03

$ 749.82 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

35% slightly better overall score

1845 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

16 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

2601% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

162 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

302.98 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33586 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

41105 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1923 MHz

70% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

2321 MHz

90% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

53 W

211% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

74.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

39% slightly higher texture rate

111.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

39% slightly better floating point performance

3.57 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

166% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

217th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2022 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 6400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6400 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6400 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6400 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6400 has a significantly lower TDP at 53 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the Radeon RX 6400.