NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

AMD Radeon R5 M230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 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 33% (1140MHz vs 855MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +1097%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/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

4.880 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Jet

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

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

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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