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Zotac GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

Zotac GeForce GTX 980
Zotac GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5 · 1.22 GHz · 165 W Speed index 4/100

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.22 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.98 TFLOPS.

AMD Radeon Pro VII
AMD Radeon Pro VII 16 GB HBM2 · 1.70 GHz · 250 W Speed index 11/100

The AMD Radeon Pro VII has 3840 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.70 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 12.70 TFLOPS.

Quick comparison

In FP32 performance, the AMD Radeon Pro VII is 155 % faster than the Zotac GeForce GTX 980.

Zotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
Speed index
4/100
11/100
FP32
4.98 TFLOPS
12.70 TFLOPS
Boost Clock
1.22 GHz
1.70 GHz
Memory Size
4 GB GDDR5
16 GB HBM2
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
1,024 GB/s
TDP
165 W
250 W
Launch Price
499 $
699 $

GPU

GPUZotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
Based onNVIDIA GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon VII
GPU ChipGM204-400-A1Vega 20 XT
Streaming Multiprocessors1660
Shader20483840
Render Output Units6464
Texture Units128240
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The Zotac 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 Pro VII is based on the GCN 5.1 architecture and is equipped with 60 execution units.

Memory

MemoryZotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
Memory Size4 GB16 GB
Memory TypeGDDR5HBM2
Memory Clock1.753 GHz1.000 GHz
Memory Speed7.0 Gbps2.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth224 GB/s1,024 GB/s
Memory Interface256 bit4,096 bit
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII has a 16 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.000GHz.

Clock Speeds

Clock SpeedsZotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
Base Clock1.126 GHz1.400 GHz
Boost Clock1.216 GHz1.700 GHz
OverclockingYesYes
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 has a turbo clock of 1.216 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon Pro VII is 1.700 GHz.

Thermal Design

Thermal DesignZotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
TDP165 W250 W
Tjunction max98 °C99 °C
PCIe-Power2 x 6-Pin1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
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The Zotac 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 Pro VII 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 99 °C.

Cooler & Fans

Cooler & FansZotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
Fan-TypeRadialRadial
Fan 11 x 65 mm1 x 75 mm
Cooler-TypeAir coolingAir cooling
Noise (Idle)0 dB42 dB
Noise (Load)--58 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Zotac GeForce GTX 980 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII is cooled by a Air cooling.

Connectivity

ConnectivityZotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
Max. Displays44
HDCP2.2--
HDMI1x HDMI 2.0--
DisplayPort3x DP 1.26x DP 1.4a
DVI1--
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII supports HDCP in version -- and all previous versions.

Featureset

FeaturesetZotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
Max. resolution4096x21607680x4320
DirectX12_112_1
RaytracingNoNo
DLSS / FSRNoYes
LEDNo LED lightingNo LED lighting
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

Supported Video Codecs

Supported Video CodecsZotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
h264Decode / EncodeDecode / Encode
h265 / HEVCNoDecode / Encode
VP8DecodeDecode
VP9NoDecode / Encode
AV1NoNo
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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

DimensionsZotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
Length267 mm283 mm
Height111 mm130 mm
Width38 mm40 mm
Width (Slots)2 Slots2 Slots
SFF-ReadyNoNo
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The Zotac 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 Pro VII is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Additional data

Additional dataZotac GeForce GTX 980AMD Radeon Pro VII
GPU InterfacePCIe 3 x 16PCIe 3.0 x 16
Release dateQ3/2014Q1/2019
Launch Price499 $699 $
Structure size28 nm7 nm
Part-noZT-90201-10PRX-VEGMA3FD6
Documents--data sheet
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Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, Zotac GeForce GTX 980 was released in Q3/2014.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII published in Q1/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

Benchmark results

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 AMD Radeon Pro VII +168.0 %

  1. 32,043
  2. 85,862

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan AMD Radeon Pro VII +130.3 %

  1. 38,621
  2. 88,955

Geekbench 6 - Metal

  1. no data
  2. 74,108

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