GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 560X

CORE STATE Polaris 21

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1275 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

16,600

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

20,086

38,172

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 560X

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

2,048 +100.0%

Shaders

1,024

2,048 +100.0%

TMUs

64

128 +100.0%

ROPs

16

64 +300.0%

Compute Units

16

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Clocks

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.611 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

163.2 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

2.611 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

75 W

165 W

TDP (W)

75

165 +120.0%

Suggested PSU

250 W

450 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GM204

Generation

Polaris (RX 500X)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

3,000 million

5,200 million

Die Size

123 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.4M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

170 mm 6.7 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Polaris

GeForce 700

Successor

Vega

GeForce 10

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