AMD Radeon Pro W6600X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6600X and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6600X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 2068 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 2.3x more boost clock speed: 2479 MHz vs 1075 MHz
  • 1802.8x more texture fill rate: 317.3 GTexel/s vs 176 billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • 285.7x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 7.0 GB/s
  • Around 57% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 67420 vs 42931
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 vs 2 June 2015
Core clock speed 2068 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Boost clock speed 2479 MHz vs 1075 MHz
Texture fill rate 317.3 GTexel/s vs 176 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 7.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 67420 vs 42931

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

  • Around 38% higher pipelines: 2816 vs 2048
Pipelines 2816 vs 2048

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6600X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
67420
42931
Name AMD Radeon Pro W6600X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Geekbench - OpenCL 67420 42931
PassMark - G3D Mark 13809
PassMark - G2D Mark 852
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 145.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1722.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 11.661
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 37.16
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 788.464
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3338
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3338
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5754

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6600X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Navi 23 GM200
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 2 June 2015
Place in performance rating 303 306
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Price now $679.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 23.43

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2479 MHz 1075 MHz
Compute units 32
Core clock speed 2068 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2048 2816
Pixel fill rate 158.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 317.3 GTexel/s 176 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 11060 million 8,000 million
CUDA cores 2816
Floating-point performance 6,060 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface Apple MPX PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt 600 Watt
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
SLI options 4x
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin + 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 336.5 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 7.0 GB/s
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround