NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7730M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7730M 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 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1140MHz vs 675MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +575%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7730M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 7730M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 900M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

675 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

25W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Chelsea

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Chelsea LE (216-0834065)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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