NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8530M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8530M 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 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1140MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +942%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8530M

0.448 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8530M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

448.0 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Mars

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Mars S3 LE (216-0842054)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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