NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile 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 6% (1140MHz vs 1074MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +6%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

4.399 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1074 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.37 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.399 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.399 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

85W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

232 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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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