NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 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

1650 points

12665 points

667% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS

267 FPS

235 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

178 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

245 FPS

223 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

104 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2939 points

3316 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

2098.98 points

693% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

127642 points

420% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

142477 points

496% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

1800 MHz

73% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz

2544 MHz

125% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.4 GB/s

432 GB/s

169% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

145% significantly lower TDP

245 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

244 Gigapixels/s

238% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

550 Gigatexels/s

408% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

420% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

4096

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

216

125% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

231st of 586

29th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

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 980M vs Radeon RX 7700 XT comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980M in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7700 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 7700 XT 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 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 GeForce GTX 980M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7700 XT at 245 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 7700 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 980M.