NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 679.99

$ 199.86 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

19220 points

670% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

393 FPS

341 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

273 FPS

233 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

362 FPS

326 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

158 FPS

125 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

5616 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

3540.90 points

863% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

187759 points

442% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

213258 points

458% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1800 MHz

59% significantly 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

20 GiB

400% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

800 GB/s

256% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

90% significantly lower TDP

315 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

491% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

420% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

985% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

12288

499% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

768

499% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

10th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2022 December

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 7900 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7900 XT 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 7900 XT 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, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has significantly more memory with 20 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XT at 315 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 7900 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 980.