PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5
vs
ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 and the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 570 and has 2048 texture shaders and 32 execution units.

ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which has 2816 shaders and 22 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 GPU ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AMD Radeon RX 570 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Polaris 20 XL GPU Chip GM200-310-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2048 Shader 2816
32 Render Output Units 96
128 Texture Units 176
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 337 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 337 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 clocks in the base with up to 1.168 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 1.000 GHz.

1.168 GHz Base Clock 1.000 GHz
1.250 GHz Boost Clock 1.076 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 is 150 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a TDP of 250 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

150 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 is 255 mm long, 137 mm high and 47 mm wide.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and 40 mm wide.

255 mm Length 267 mm
137 mm Height 111 mm
47 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 was released in Q2/2017 at a price of 169 $.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti was introduced in Q2/2015 at a price of 739 $.

AXRX 570 8GBD5-3DHD/OC Part-no --
Q2/2017 Release date Q2/2015
169 $ Launch Price 739 $
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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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