NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 Full Specs

Summary

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

GeForce GTX 9804.98 TFLOPSFP32

x1

Radeon RX 9060685.8 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x137.70

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Theoretical Performance

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

Core Config

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

Clocks

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

Cache

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

Memory

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

Power & Thermals

TDP 165W

TDP 132W

Video Output

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

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 2x NVENC 3

Encoder Model VCN 4.0

Decoder

Decoder Model NVDEC 1

Decoder Model VCN 4.0

Card

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

Chip

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

Fabrication

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

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