NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1219MHz vs 1127MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +177%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon E9172 MXM

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon E9172 MXM

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

1536

Shading Units

512

96

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Lexa

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

E9170

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

103 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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