Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP
vs
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP is based on the AMD Radeon RX 570 (GCN 4) and has 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Maxwell 2.0) and has 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP has the Polaris 20 XL graphics chip installed, which is based on the GCN 4 architecture.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming is based on the graphics chip GM204-400-A1, which comes from the Maxwell 2.0 architecture.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming
AMD Radeon RX 570 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Polaris 20 XL GPU Chip GM204-400-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
2048 Shader 2048
32 Render Output Units 64
128 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 7.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming is 7.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.753 GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 4 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 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.168 GHz Base Clock 1.241 GHz
1.284 GHz Boost Clock 1.342 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 180 W.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming has 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 165 W.

180 W TDP 165 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming has 1 Radial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming 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 can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3 x 16 Lanes interface.

230 mm Length 267 mm
125 mm Height 111 mm
40 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 4G G5 HDMI DP has been manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers since Q3/2017.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming came on the market in Q3/2014 and will have a structure width of 28 nanometers manufactured.

11266-67 Part-no 04G-P4-2982-KR
Q3/2017 Release date Q3/2014
169 $ Launch Price 529 $
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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