GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon HD 7990

GeForce GTX 980
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 980
Radeon HD 7990
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 7990

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 980
    101%
  • Radeon HD 7990
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980

210 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.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 980Radeon HD 7990
GPU NameGM204 (GM204-400-A1)vsMalta ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders2048vs2048
Compute Units16vs32
Core clock1127 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs128vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 980Radeon HD 7990
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 980Radeon HD 7990
TDP165 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date19 Sep 2014vs24 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 980
    72.10 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    60.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 980
    144.30 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    244.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 980
    224.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    576.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 980
    4616.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7990
    7782.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 980
    18720
  • Radeon HD 7990
    18530

Points (higher is better)