MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G
vs
KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G has 4096 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.68 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 13.73 TFLOPS.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti has 2816 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.08 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.06 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 5 architecture, which has 64 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G GPU KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AMD RX Vega 64 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Vega 10 XT GPU Chip GM200-310-A1
GCN 5 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
64 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
4096 Shader 2816
64 Render Output Units 96
256 Texture Units 176
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory, which is equipped with 0.945 GHz clocks.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
HBM2 Memory Type GDDR5
0.945 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
1.9 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
484 GB/s Memory bandwidth 337 GB/s
2048 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G has a turbo clock of 1.677 GHz. The turbo frequency of the KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 1.076 GHz.

1.272 GHz Base Clock 1.000 GHz
1.677 GHz Boost Clock 1.076 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 91 °C.

295 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G are cooled with a AIO water cooling.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial (Radiator) Fan-Type Radial
1 x 120 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
AIO water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No 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
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 No

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

283 mm Length 267 mm
130 mm Height 111 mm
40 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
2020 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G was released in Q3/2017.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Ti published in Q2/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

-- Part-no 98IRH5DH00GA
Q3/2017 Release date Q2/2015
499 $ (Reference) Launch Price 649 $ (Reference)
14 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

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)

MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G
8 GB HBM2
69 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G
8 GB HBM2
100 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave 8G
8 GB HBM2
139 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

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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