NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X2500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Mobility Radeon X2500

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

M6x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

-

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.840 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.840 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

M66

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

3.0

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