AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2019
Sep 2014
Generation
Polaris
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1074 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1226 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
2048
TMUs
112
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
39.23 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
137.3 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.394 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.394 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
274.6 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM204
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 LE1
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
165W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2