GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming
vs
AMD Radeon RX 470


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming has 2816 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.28 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.20 TFLOPS.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.21 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.94 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card AMD Radeon RX 470 is based on the Ellesmere architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming GPU AMD Radeon RX 470
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Based on AMD Radeon RX 470
GM200-310-A1 GPU Chip Polaris 10 PRO
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture Ellesmere
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 32
2816 Shader 2048
96 Render Output Units 32
176 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.650GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 1.650 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.6 Gbps
337 GB/s Memory bandwidth 211 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming has a turbo clock of 1.279 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 470 is 1.206 GHz.

1.190 GHz Base Clock 0.926 GHz
1.279 GHz Boost Clock 1.206 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming 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 91 °C.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

250 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
91 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming are cooled with a Air cooling.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
3 x 80 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 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 v2.0b
3x DP v1.2 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
2 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.

4096x2160 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_0
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 No
No VP9 No

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the AMD Radeon RX 470 is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

296 mm Length 240 mm
120 mm Height 95 mm
39 mm Width 35 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming was released in Q2/2015.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

GV-N98TG1 GAMING-6GD Part-no --
Q2/2015 Release date Q3/2016
649 $ (Reference) Launch Price 179 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet 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

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

AMD Radeon RX 470 AMD Radeon RX 470
4 GB GDDR5
36011

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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