AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 391.52 significantly less expensive

$ 879.85

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

116% significantly better overall score

2494 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

36 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

119% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

166% significantly higher Blender score

367.38 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311 points

350% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

15163 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33463 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41306 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

521% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

15163 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34611 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

38178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

1126 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

1216 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

448 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

165 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

56% significantly higher pixel rate

77.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

95% significantly higher texture rate

155.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

95% significantly better floating point performance

4.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

25% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

25% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 586

177th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 980 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5700 XT has a slightly 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 5700 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 5700 XT has significantly more memory with 8 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 slightly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5700 XT over the GeForce GTX 980.