NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 729.99

$ 149.86 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

20954 points

740% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

421 FPS

368 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

302 FPS

262 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

380 FPS

344 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

172 FPS

139 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

7249 points

65% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

3144.45 points

755% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

160380 points

363% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

194640 points

409% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

2970 MHz

144% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

640 GB/s

185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

380.2 Gigapixels/s

388% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

48.7 TFLOPS

877% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

8th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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

GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 9070 XT beats the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 9070 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9070 XT over the GeForce GTX 980.