NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700M 10 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

4525 points

81% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

87 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

69 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

80 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

40 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

9403 points

114% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

1185.54 points

222% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

80710 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

63096 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

93259 points

515% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

78550 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

90816 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1489 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

2400 MHz

97% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

10 GiB

150% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

320 GB/s

42% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

135 W

22% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

153.6 Gigapixels/s

97% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

331.2 Gigatexels/s

112% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

10.6 TFLOPS

112% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2304

12% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

144

12% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

112th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2021 May

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 6700M benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6700M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 6700M has a slightly 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 6700M also 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6700M has significantly more memory with 10 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 6700M has a slightly lower TDP at 135 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700M is better than the GeForce GTX 980.