Radeon RX 470D vs GeForce GTX 980
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470D |
| 45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 470D | | GeForce GTX 980 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Ellesmere (Ellesmere LE) | vs | GM204 (GM204-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,700 million | vs | 5,200 million |
| Shaders | 1792 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 28 | vs | 16 |
| Core clock | 926 MHz | vs | 1127 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 112 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 470D | | GeForce GTX 980 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 470D | | GeForce GTX 980 | |
|---|
| TDP | 120 watts | vs | 165 watts |
| Release Date | 21 Oct 2016 | vs | 19 Sep 2014 |
Radeon RX 470D
38.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 980
72.10 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 470D
135.10 GT/s
GeForce GTX 980
144.30 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 470D
211.20 GB/s
GeForce GTX 980
224.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 470D
4322.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 980
4616.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better