ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition
vs
ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.43 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.86 TFLOPS.

The ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.20 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.19 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GPU ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Based on AMD Radeon RX 560 (16 CU)
GM204-400-A1 GPU Chip Polaris 21 XT
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture GCN 4
16 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
2048 Shader 1024
64 Render Output Units 16
128 Texture Units 64
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.700GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 1.700 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.8 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 109 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition has a turbo clock of 1.431 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB is 1.199 GHz.

1.317 GHz Base Clock 1.199 GHz
1.431 GHz Boost Clock 1.199 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 97 °C.

165 W TDP 75 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.2 DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

4096x2160 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12_1 DirectX 12
No Raytracing No
No DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
No h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
No VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB is 41 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

297 mm Length 240 mm
152 mm Height 129 mm
41 mm Width 42 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition was released in Q1/2015.

The ASRock Radeon RX 560 Phantom Gaming Elite 4GB published in Q2/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

GOLD20TH-GTX980-P-4GD5 Part-no RX560-PGE-4G
Q1/2015 Release date Q2/2017
749 $ Launch Price 99 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 14 nm
-- Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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