The PNY GeForce GTX 980 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card AMD Radeon RX 480 is based on the Ellesmere architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
Memory
Memory
PNY GeForce GTX 980
AMD Radeon RX 480
Memory Size
4 GB
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
1.753 GHz
2.000 GHz
Memory Speed
7.0 Gbps
8.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
256 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
PNY GeForce GTX 980
AMD Radeon RX 480
Base Clock
1.126 GHz
1.120 GHz
Boost Clock
1.216 GHz
1.266 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 has a turbo clock of 1.216 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 480 is 1.266 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
PNY GeForce GTX 980
AMD Radeon RX 480
TDP
165 W
150 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
100 °C
PCIe-Power
2 x 6-Pin
1 x 6-Pin
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 has 2 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
PNY GeForce GTX 980
AMD Radeon RX 480
Fan-Type
Radial
Radial
Fan 1
1 x 65 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 PNY GeForce GTX 980 are cooled with a Air cooling.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
PNY GeForce GTX 980
AMD Radeon RX 480
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.2
3x DP 1.4a
DVI
1
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
PNY GeForce GTX 980
AMD Radeon RX 480
Max. resolution
4096x2160
7680x4320
DirectX
12_1
12_0
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
No
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
PNY GeForce GTX 980
AMD Radeon RX 480
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
No
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
No
VP9
No
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
PNY GeForce GTX 980
AMD Radeon RX 480
Length
267 mm
240 mm
Height
111 mm
95 mm
Width
38 mm
35 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the AMD Radeon RX 480 is 38 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.
