AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 32% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1216 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1069 vs 474

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 19 September 2014
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1216 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069 vs 474

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

4.6x more pipelines: 2048 vs 448
3.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34898 vs 11203

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2048 vs 448
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	34898 vs 11203

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1069

474

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

34898

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	474
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	34898
PassMark - G3D Mark		11112
PassMark - G2D Mark		791
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		110.006
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1348.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		9.194
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		37.443
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		477.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3335

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM204
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	19 September 2014
Place in performance rating	1317	379
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$549
Price now		$605.06
Value for money (0-100)		21.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1216 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	2048
CUDA cores		2048
Floating-point performance		4,981 gflops
Texture fill rate		144 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		165 Watt
Transistor count		5,200 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL		1.2
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
SLI options		1
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pins
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		224 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		7.0 GB/s
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
BatteryBoost
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Surround