NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M470
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1140MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
+203%
4.669 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M470
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2015
Release Date
May 2016
GeForce 900M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1064 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1140 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
768
128
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
72.96 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
145.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.669 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
145.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Emerald
N16E-GXX-A1
GPU Variant
Emerald PRO
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
160 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
