ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT
vs
ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT has 5376 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.40 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 51.61 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC has 2816 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.32 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.42 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 3 architecture, which has 84 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Navi 31 GPU Chip GM200-310-A1
RDNA 3 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
84 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
5376 Shader 2816
192 Render Output Units 96
336 Texture Units 176
84 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT is equipped with a 20 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.500 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.800GHz.

20 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.800 GHz
20.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.2 Gbps
800 GB/s Memory bandwidth 346 GB/s
320 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT has a turbo clock of 2.400 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC is 1.317 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.216 GHz
2.400 GHz Boost Clock 1.317 GHz
2.00 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT 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 97 °C.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 91 °C.

300 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting 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
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
Decode / Encode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 No

Dimensions

The ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT is 51 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC is 51 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

276 mm Length 305 mm
113 mm Height 152 mm
51 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT was released in Q4/2022.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 980 Ti OC published in Q2/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

-- Part-no STRIX-GTX980TI-DC3OC-6GD5-GAMING
Q4/2022 Release date Q2/2015
899 $ (Reference) Launch Price 899 $
5 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB GDDR6
13969

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB GDDR6
4529

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

2560x1440 (1440p)

ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB GDDR6
90 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB GDDR6
44 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB GDDR6
88 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB GDDR6
138 fps (avg)

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

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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