NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon HD 6450A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD Radeon HD 6450A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6450A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 8.528GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +1631%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6450A

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon HD 6450A

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

-

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

533 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

8.528GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

1536

Shading Units

160

96

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

25W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Caicos

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.0

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