NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 6500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 111% (2400MHz vs 1140MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M +5%

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 24

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XM

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.6

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