NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6530M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 6530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +1196%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530M

0.36 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 6530M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

-

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

2048

Shading Units

400

128

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

360.0 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Capilano

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Capilano LE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

26W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.0

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