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GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

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

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 230 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 250 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 393216 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 336000 MB/sec
Difference: 57216 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be much (more or less 111%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 176000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 195360 (111%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 55%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 96000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 52544 (55%)

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

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Model GeForce GTX 980 Ti Radeon RX 6700 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2015 March 2021
Code Name GM200 Navi 22
Memory 6144 MB (Unknown) MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 2321 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 4000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 230 watts
Bandwidth 336000 MB/sec 393216 MB/sec
Texel Rate 176000 Mtexels/sec 371360 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 96000 Mpixels/sec 148544 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2816 2560
Texture Mapping Units 176 160
Render Output Units 96 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 384-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 8000 million 17200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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Radeon RX 6700 XT

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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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