GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon HD 7990

GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jun 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Radeon HD 7990
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 7990

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    132%
  • Radeon HD 7990
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Ti

125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7990 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 32% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7990

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Ti

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 980 TiRadeon HD 7990
GPU NameGM200 (GM200-310-A1)vsMalta ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size601 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors8,000 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders2816vs2048
Compute Units22vs32
Core clock1000 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs96vs32
TMUs176vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 980 TiRadeon HD 7990
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 980 TiRadeon HD 7990
TDP250 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date2 Jun 2015vs24 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    96.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    60.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    176.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    244.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    337.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    576.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    5632.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7990
    7782.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    24560
  • Radeon HD 7990
    18530

Points (higher is better)