GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon RX 9070
CORE STATE
Navi 48
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2520 MHz
TDP
220 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 4.0
PROCESS
4 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2025
VS
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
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 9070
GTX 980
Core Specs
Shading Units
3,584
2,048
-42.9%
Shaders
3,584
2,048
-42.9%
TMUs
224
128
-42.9%
ROPs
128
64
-50.0%
Compute Units
56
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1330 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
1216 MHz
Game Clock
2070 MHz
—
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
20.1 Gbps effective
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
16 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
16,384
4,096
-75.0%
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
644.6 GB/s
224.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
—
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
8 MB
2 MB
L3 Cache
64 MB
—
L0 Cache
32 KB per WGP
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
322.6 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
564.5 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
36.13 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
1,129.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
72.25 TFLOPS (2:1)
—
AI/RT
RT Cores
56
—
Matrix Cores
112
—
Power
TDP
220 W
165 W
TDP (W)
220
165
-25.0%
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Navi 48
GM204
Generation
Navi IV
(RX 9000)
GeForce 900
Process Size
4 nm
28 nm
Transistors
53,900 million
5,200 million
Die Size
357 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
151.0M / mm²
13.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
2.2
3.0
CUDA
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
549 USD
Production
Active
End-of-life
Predecessor
Navi III
GeForce 700
Successor
—
GeForce 10