GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a speed of 1600 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX Vega 56 will be 25% faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti overall, because of its higher data rate. (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 will be much (about 47%) better at anisotropic filtering 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 quite a bit (more or less 30%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX Vega 56, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.