NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
VS
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
VS
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

73
Place in performance rating
75
25.96
Value for money (0-100)
9.53
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 5.0
GM200
Code name
Vega 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
2 June 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
27 June 2017 (4 years ago)
$649
Launch price (MSRP)
$999
$629 (1x MSRP)
Price now
$645 (0.6x MSRP)
27.96
Value for money
35.93
GM200
GPU code name
Vega 10
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

2816
Pipelines
4096
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
1382 MHz
1075 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
8,000 million
Transistor count
12,500 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
250 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
176 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
409.6
6,060 gflops
Floating-point performance
13,107 gflops
2816
CUDA cores
no data
2816
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
1075 MHz
Boost clock speed
1600 MHz
8,000 million
Number of transistors
12,500 million
250 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
300 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
10.5" (26.7 cm)
Length
267 mm
6-pin + 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
+
SLI options
no data
600 Watt
Recommended system power (PSU)
no data
PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
no data
4.376" (11.1 cm)
Height
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
HBM2
6 GB
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
384 Bit
Memory bus width
2048 Bit
7.0 GB/s
Memory clock speed
1890 MHz
336.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
483.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, the size and number of monitors.

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
+
G-SYNC support
no data
4 displays
Multi monitor support
no data
+
HDCP
no data
2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
no data
Internal
Audio input for HDMI
no data
+
HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
no data
2.0
GPU Boost
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
GeForce Experience
no data
+
Surround
no data
+
Adaptive Vertical Sync
no data
+
GameStream
no data
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
no data
+
GameWorks
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
1.1.126
Vulkan
no data
6.4
Shader Model
no data
1.2
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti or AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Cheaper ($629 (1x MSRP) vs $645 (0.6x MSRP))

Less power consumption (250 Watt vs 300 Watt)

G-SYNC support

Advantages of AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

0.77% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (4096 vs 2816)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (16 GB vs 6 GB)

More memory bandwidth (483.8 GB/s vs 336.5 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti or AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti versus AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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