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GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti features a clock speed of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2816 SPUs, 176 TAUs, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 250 Watts
Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 14% faster than the Radeon RX 5600 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 294912 MB/sec
Difference: 41088 (14%)

Texel Rate

Both cards have exactly the same texel rate, so theoretically they should be equally good at at anisotropic filtering. (explain)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is just a bit (about 9%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 5600, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 88000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8000 (9%)

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 5600
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2015 January 2020
Code Name GM200 Navi 10 XE
Memory 6144 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 336000 MB/sec 294912 MB/sec
Texel Rate 176000 Mtexels/sec 176000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 96000 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2816 2048
Texture Mapping Units 176 128
Render Output Units 96 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 384-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 8000 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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