Radeon Pro Vega 56 and GeForce GTX 980 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs GeForce GTX 980
Radeon Pro Vega 56
12724
GeForce GTX 980
11457
Radeon Pro Vega 56
GeForce GTX 980
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Vega
GM204
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
December 2017
September 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
1216 MHz
Core clock speed
1247 MHz
1064 MHz
CUDA cores
-
2048
Floating-point performance
9,677 gflops
4,981 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
165 Watt
Texture fill rate
280.0
144 billion/sec
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
2048 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
786 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
402.4 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
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
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.125
1.1.126
BatteryBoost
-
+
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+