NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and ATI Radeon X1950 GT 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 29.3x more texture fill rate: 176 billion / sec vs 6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 24x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 256 MB
  • 129.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13758 vs 106
  • 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 852 vs 279
  • Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3338 vs 2517
  • Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3338 vs 2517
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2 June 2015 vs 29 January 2007
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 176 billion / sec vs 6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 13758 vs 106
PassMark - G2D Mark 852 vs 279
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3338 vs 2517
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3338 vs 2517

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 GT

  • 4.4x lower typical power consumption: 57 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 171.4x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 57 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13758
106
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
852
279
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3338
2517
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3338
2517
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti ATI Radeon X1950 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 13758 106
PassMark - G2D Mark 852 279
Geekbench - OpenCL 42988
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 2517
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3338 2517
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1321

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti ATI Radeon X1950 GT

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 R500
Code name GM200 RV570
Launch date 2 June 2015 29 January 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $649 $140
Place in performance rating 310 944
Price now $679.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 23.43

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1075 MHz
Core clock speed 1000 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 2816
Floating-point performance 6,060 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 2816
Texture fill rate 176 billion / sec 6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 57 Watt
Transistor count 8,000 million 330 million

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 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
SLI options 4x
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin + 8-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 336.5 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

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