The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 5 architecture, which has 64 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1 is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
Memory
Memory
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G
MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1
Memory Size
8 GB
4 GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR5
Memory Clock
0.945 GHz
1.753 GHz
Memory Speed
1.9 Gbps
7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
484 GB/s
224 GB/s
Memory Interface
2,048 bit
256 bit
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The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory, which is equipped with 0.945 GHz clocks.
The MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G
MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1
Base Clock
1.247 GHz
1.127 GHz
Boost Clock
1.546 GHz
1.216 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G has a turbo clock of 1.546 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1 is 1.216 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G
MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1
TDP
295 W
165 W
Tjunction max
100 °C
98 °C
PCIe-Power
2 x 8-Pin
2 x 6-Pin
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The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G 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 100 °C.
The MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1 is equipped with a 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G
MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1
Fan-Type
Radial
Radial
Fan 1
1 x 70 mm
1 x 65 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
--
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.
The MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1 is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G
MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4
3x DP 1.2
DVI
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1
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The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G
MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1
Max. resolution
7680x4320
4096x2160
DirectX
12_1
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
No
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G
MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
No
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode / Encode
No
AV1
No
No
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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.
Dimensions
Dimensions
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G
MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1
Length
280 mm
269 mm
Height
127 mm
111 mm
Width
40 mm
38 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
Weight
1,090 g
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SFF-Ready
No
No
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The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 8G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 V1 is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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.
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.
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