AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 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

5396 points

40% slightly better overall score

3839 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

76 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

58 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

65% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5794 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

536.77 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311 points

249% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

19520 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40025 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54616 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

382% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

19520 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43854 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47793 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

1076 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336.6 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

11% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

103.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

60% significantly higher texture rate

189.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

60% significantly better floating point performance

6.06 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

2816

10% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

176

10% slightly 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

93rd of 586

127th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2015 June

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 Ti specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5700 XT beats the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5700 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 5700 XT has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 225 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 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 Radeon RX 5700 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.