
GeForce GTX 980 Ti and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
14228
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GM200
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2015
March 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
600 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin + 8-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1075 MHz
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
-
CUDA cores
2816
-
Floating-point performance
6,060 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
512
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
176 billion/sec
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.5 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
FreeSync
-
+
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-