AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2014
Sep 2014
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Curacao
GM204
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
165W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2