GeForce GTX 980 Ti and Radeon RX 6950 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
14228
Radeon RX 6950 XT
29146
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Radeon RX 6950 XT
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM200
Navi
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2015
May 2022
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
600 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin + 8-pin
2x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1075 MHz
2324 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
1925 MHz
CUDA cores
2816
-
Floating-point performance
6,060 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
26,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
5120
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
335 Watt
Texture fill rate
176 billion/sec
743.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.5 GB/s
576.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-