NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R7 A260

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

AMD Radeon R7 A260

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 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 16% (1140MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +520%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A260

0.752 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon R7 A260

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.52 GTexel/s

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Topaz

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5

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