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GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti comes with a GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2816 SPUs, 176 TAUs, and 96 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with GPU core speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 memory set to run at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX Vega 56 21011 points
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 17120 points
Difference: 3891 (23%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56 210 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 250 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 will be 25% quicker than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56 419430 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 336000 MB/sec
Difference: 83430 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is a lot (more or less 47%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56 258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 176000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 82944 (47%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should be a lot (approximately 30%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX Vega 56, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56 73984 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 22016 (30%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 980 Ti Radeon RX Vega 56
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2015 September 2017
Code Name GM200 Vega 10 XL
Memory 6144 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 1156 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 210 watts
Bandwidth 336000 MB/sec 419430 MB/sec
Texel Rate 176000 Mtexels/sec 258944 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 96000 Mpixels/sec 73984 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2816 3584
Texture Mapping Units 176 224
Render Output Units 96 64
Bus Type GDDR5 HBM2
Bus Width 384-bit 2048-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 8000 million 12500 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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