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GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

The GeForce GTX 980 has a GPU core speed of 1126 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with a clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 165 Watts
Difference: 15 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 224000 MB/sec
Difference: 70912 (32%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be a lot (more or less 22%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 144128 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 31872 (22%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be quite a bit (approximately 22%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 980, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 72064 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15936 (22%)

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 Radeon RX 5600
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2014 January 2020
Code Name GM204-400 Navi 10 XE
Memory 4096 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 1126 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 165 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 224000 MB/sec 294912 MB/sec
Texel Rate 144128 Mtexels/sec 176000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72064 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 2048
Texture Mapping Units 128 128
Render Output Units 64 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 5200 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 980

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Radeon RX 5600

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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