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GeForce GTX 980 and Radeon RX 5700 XT - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

GeForce GTX 980
11457
Radeon RX 5700 XT
17129

GeForce GTX 980

Radeon RX 5700 XT


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Navi / RDNA (2019−2020)

GPU code name
GM204
Navi 10

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
September 2014
July 2019

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1216 MHz
1905 MHz

Core clock speed
1064 MHz
1605 MHz

CUDA cores
2048
-

Floating-point performance
4,981 gflops
-

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm

Number of transistors
5,200 million
10,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2560

Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
225 Watt

Texture fill rate
144 billion/sec
304.8

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
448.0 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support
4 displays
-

VGA аnalog display support
+
-

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-

HDMI
+
+

HDCP
+
-

Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-

G-SYNC support
+
-

Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)

CUDA
+
-

OpenCL
1.2
2.0

OpenGL
4.5
4.6

Shader Model
6.4
6.5

Vulkan
1.1.126
+

BatteryBoost
+
-

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-

Multi Monitor
-
+

Optimus
+
-

VR Ready
-
+