NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 11

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 11, 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

236% significantly better overall score

742 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

13 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

7 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

313% significantly higher Blender score

88.84 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14198 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

177% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14883 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

17490 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14689 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

183% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

13478 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

275% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

1400 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

15 W

1000% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

594% significantly higher pixel rate

11.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

152% significantly higher texture rate

61.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

152% significantly better floating point performance

1.97 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

190% significantly more shading units

704

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

190% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

286th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 Vega 11 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the Radeon RX Vega 11 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX Vega 11 has a slightly 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the Radeon RX Vega 11.