NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon Vega 11

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon 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

279% significantly better overall score

658 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

419% significantly higher Blender score

70.66 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12376 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

12402 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

17392 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13344 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16804 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

297th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2019 September

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 Vega 11 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980 graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 11 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 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. Despite this, the Radeon 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 Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980 is faster than the Radeon Vega 11.