NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon 540X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1140MHz vs 1095MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +316%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon 540X Mobile

1.121 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon 540X Mobile

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1095 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.52 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1121 GFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1121 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Lexa

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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