NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1250MHz vs 1140MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +91%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

1138 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

-

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

210W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Vega 10

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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