GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

CORE STATE Navi 48

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2970 MHz

TDP 304 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 4.0

nm

PROCESS 4 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

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

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

7,260

474

geekbench_opencl

160,317

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

184,026

38,172

passmark_directx_10

154

53

passmark_directx_11

292

83

passmark_directx_12

78

46

passmark_directx_9

353

164

passmark_g2d

1,328

792

passmark_g3d

26,795

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

15,864

4,753

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 9070 XT

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

4,096

2,048 -50.0%

Shaders

4,096

2,048 -50.0%

TMUs

256

128 -50.0%

ROPs

128

64 -50.0%

Compute Units

64

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1660 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

2970 MHz

1216 MHz

Game Clock

2400 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

380.2 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

760.3 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

48.66 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

1.521 TFLOPS (1:32)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

97.32 TFLOPS (2:1)

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AI/RT

RT Cores

64

—

Matrix Cores

128

—

Power

TDP

304 W

165 W

TDP (W)

304

165 -45.7%

Suggested PSU

700 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

599 USD

549 USD

Production

Active

End-of-life

Predecessor

Navi III

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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