AMD Radeon RX 9060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Full Specs

Summary

1,792 Shaders 2.99GHz	2,048 Shaders 1.22GHz
8GB GDDR6288GB/s	4GB GDDR5224GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 21.43 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 4.98 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 132W	TDP 165W
Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin -	Power Connectors - 2x 6-Pin

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP8-16 FP8-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-32 FP8-32 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor INT8 Tensor INT4 Memory Bandwidth TDP

Radeon RX 9060685.8 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x137.70

GeForce GTX 9804.98 TFLOPSFP32

x1

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed2990MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1216MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 685.8 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse	Peak OPS 4.98 TFLOPSFP32
Tensor FP8-16 85.73 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 171.5 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 85.73 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 171.5 TFLOPS	-
Tensor FP16-16 42.86 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 85.73 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 42.86 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 85.73 TFLOPS	-
BF16 42.86 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 42.86 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 85.73 TFLOPS	-
FP32 21.43 TFLOPS	FP32 4.98 TFLOPS
FP64 669.8 GFLOPS	FP64 155.7 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 342.9 TOPS	Tensor INT4 -
Tensor INT8 171.5 TOPS	-
Pixel Rate 191.4 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 77.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 334.9 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 155.7 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 1,792 Shaders	Shaders 2,048 Shaders
TMUs 112 TMUs	TMUs 128 TMUs
ROPs 64 ROPs	ROPs 64 ROPs
Tensor Cores 56 T-Cores	Tensor Cores -
RT Cores 28 RT-Cores	RT Cores -
CUs 28 CUs	SMs 16 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 2.4GHz	Base Clock 1.13GHz
Boost Clock 2.99GHz	Boost Clock 1.22GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 4.1MB shared	L2 Cache 2MB shared
L3 Cache 32MB shared	L3 Cache -
L3 Bandwidth 1.13TB/s	L3 Bandwidth -

Memory

8GB GDDR6	4GB GDDR5
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 256-bit
Memory Speed 18GT/s	Memory Speed 7GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 288GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 224GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 132W

TDP 165W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 3
HDCP HDCP 2.3	HDCP -

Ports

3x DisplayPort 2.1	-
-	3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1	-
-	1x HDMI 2.0
-	1x DVI-I Dual-Link

Encoder

Encoder Model VCN 4.0

Encoder Model 2x NVENC 3

Decoder

Decoder Model VCN 4.0

Decoder Model NVDEC 1

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe 2-Slots	PCIe 2-Slots
Height 111 mm (4.37") Width 204 mm (8.03") Depth 40 mm (1.57")	Height 111 mm (4.37") Width 267 mm (10.51") Depth 40 mm (1.57")
Cooling Open-Air 3x Fans	Cooling Blower 1x Fan
Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin	Power Connectors 2x 6-Pin

Chip

Manufacturer AMD	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer AMD	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture RDNA 4	Architecture Maxwell 2
Family Radeon RX 9000	Family GeForce 900
Branding	Branding
Codename -	Codename NV124
Chip Variant Navi 44 XL	Chip Variant -
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Aug 5, 2025	Release Date Sep 18, 2014

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node N4P	Fabrication Node 28nm
Die Size 153mm²	Die Size 398mm²
Transistor Count 29.7 Billion	Transistor Count 5.2 Billion
Transistor Density 194.1 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 13.07 MTr/mm²

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