Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | Radeon R9 390X PowerColor Devil 8GB Edition | GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10% | 14% |
| Hitman 3 | 43% | 12% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 0% | 21% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 3% | 24% |
| FIFA 21 | 45% | 56% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 54% | 21% |
| Far Cry 6 | 59% | 25% |
| Genshin Impact | 10% | 14% |
| World of Warcraft: Shadowlands | 57% | 24% |
| Battlefield 6 | 43% | 12% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB are noticeably better than the AMD Radeon R9 390X PowerColor Devil 8GB Edition.
The R9 390X has a 100 MHz higher core clock speed and the same number of Texture Mapping Units as the GTX 980 Ti. This results in the R9 390X providing 17.6 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.
The R9 390X has a 100 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 980 Ti, but the GTX 980 Ti has 32 more Render Output Units than the R9 390X. As a result, the GTX 980 Ti exhibits a 25.6 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the R9 390X. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.
The R9 390X was released less than a year after the GTX 980 Ti, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.
Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.
The R9 390X has 2048 MB more video memory than the GTX 980 Ti, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, the overall memory performance is about the same.
The R9 390X has 53.8 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 980 Ti, which means that the memory performance of the R9 390X is much better than the GTX 980 Ti.
Both the Radeon R9 390X PowerColor Devil 8GB Edition and the GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB have 2816 Shader Processing Units. While the two GPUs have the same number of SPUs, the actual performance delivered by the GTX 980 Ti is 4091 and by the R9 390X is 4091. Knowing that the shader performance of the GTX 980 Ti is superior, it is not necessary to examine the GPUs' respective Texture and Pixel Fill Rates.
The Radeon R9 390X PowerColor Devil 8GB Edition requires 275 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB requires 250 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 750 Watts for the R9 390X and a PSU with at least 600 Watts for the GTX 980 Ti. The R9 390X requires 25 Watts more than the GTX 980 Ti to run. The difference is not significant enough for the R9 390X to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the GTX 980 Ti.
| Core Speed | 1100 MHz |  | vs | 1000 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | - | vs | | 1076 MHz | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.1 Grenada XT | Maxwell GM200-310-A1 | |||
| OC Potential | Poor | vs |
| Good | |
| Driver Support | Great | vs | Great | ||
| Release Date | 13 Aug 2015 | | vs | 01 Jun 2015 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
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| Comparison | |||||
| 1366x768 | 10
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10
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| 1600x900 | 10
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10
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| 1920x1080 | 10
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10
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| 2560x1440 | 7.8
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8.5
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| 3840x2160 | 6
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6.6
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| Memory | 8192 MB | | vs | 6144 MB | |
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| Memory Speed | 1525 MHz | vs | | 1753 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 512 Bit | | vs | 384 Bit | |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | | vs | | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 390.4GB/sec | | vs | 336.6GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | vs | |
3072 KB | |
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | yes | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | 2816 | | vs | | 2816 |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 100% | | vs | | 100% |
| Technology | 28nm | | vs | | 28nm |
| Texture Mapping Units | 176 | | vs | | 176 |
| Texture Rate | 193.6 GTexel/s | | vs | 176 GTexel/s | |
| Render Output Units | 64 | vs | | 96 | |
| Pixel Rate | 70.4 GPixel/s | vs | | 96 GPixel/s | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 4096x2160 | vs | | 5120x3200 | |
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| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DVI Connections | 2 | | vs | 1 | |
| HDMI Connections | 1 | | vs | | 1 |
| DisplayPort Connections | 1 | vs | | 3 | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 275 Watts | vs | | 250 Watts | |
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| Recommended PSU | 750 Watts & 50 Amps | vs | | 600 Watts & 42 Amps | |
| DirectX | 12.0 | vs | | 12.1 | |
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| Shader Model | 5.0 | | vs | | 5.0 |
| Open GL | 4.4 | vs | | 4.5 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | yes | | vs | | yes |
| Dedicated | yes | | vs | | yes |
| Comparison | |||||
| Recommended Processor | Intel Core i7-4790K 4-Core 4.0GHz | vs | Intel Core i7-4790K 4-Core 4.0GHz | ||
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| Recommended RAM | 8 GB | | vs | 16 GB | |
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 2560x1600 | | vs | | 2560x1600 |
| Performance Value |  | ||||
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| Mini Review | Overview Radeon R9 390X PowerColor Devil 8GB Edition is a Special Edition of AMD's High-End Radeon R9 390X, created by PowerColor. Overclock: Central Unit The Central Unit is now of 1100MHz, instead of 1050MHz. Overclock: Memory Clock The Operating Memory Clock is now of 1525MHz, instead of 1500MHz. Frame Buffer Untouched. Cooling Solution Hybrid Cooling: Combine both air-cooling and watercooling to one perfect hybrid system to maintain higher over clock performance with lower temperature. Performance Benchmarks Indicate a 2% Performance Boost over the Reference Radeon R9 390X 8GB. | Overview GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB is an Enthusiast Graphics Card based on the second revision of the Maxwell architecture. Architecture The Second variant of the Maxwell Architecture, despite being also manufactured with a 28nm technology, has an extremely large L2 Cache and features a Third Generation Delta Color Compression which allows NVIDIA to produce Graphics Cards with relatively small memory data transfer rates, without causing too much impact on the overall performance. Furthermore, the Shaders have been redesigned and are both more powerful and energy efficient. The Second Revision of Maxwell also adds VXGI (Voxel Global Illumination) which makes scenes significantly more lifelike and believable as light interacts more realistically in the game environment and the MFAA technology which provides the same effect as MSAA but at a much lower performance cost. GPU It equips a GPU codenamed GM200-310-A1 which has 22 SM activated and thus 2816 Shader Processing Units, 176 TMUs and 96 ROPs. The central unit runs at 1000MHz and goes up to 1076MHz, in Turbo Mode. Memory The GPU accesses a 6GB frame buffer of fast GDDR5, through a 384-bit memory interface. The size of the frame buffer is adequate. The Memory Clock Operates at 1753MHz. Power Consumption With a rated board TDP of 250W, it requires at least a 600W PSU with one available 6-pin and one available 8-pin connectors. Performance Benchmarks Indicate its performance is slightly above AMD's Dual Radeon R9 295X2 at 1920x1080 but at any resolution above that, the latter proves to be faster. As expected, $999 GeForce GTX Titan X is also slightly faster but GeForce GTX 980 is beaten in around 20%. Even so, GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB is not a competitive product because a solution of two GeForce GTX 970 in SLI is still much faster and doesn't come at a much higher cost ($658 against $649). System Suggestions GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB is best suited for resolutions up to and including 2560x1600. We recommend a Very Strong Processor and 16GB of RAM for Optimal Performance. | |||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | - | - | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||