NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8590M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8590M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8590M 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 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1140MHz vs 825MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +784%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8590M

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8590M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

750 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

825 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

36.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

20

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

6.600 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.50 GTexel/s

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Sun

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

56 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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