NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon HD 7590M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD Radeon HD 7590M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7590M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +501%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7590M

0.576 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon HD 7590M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 900M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

-

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

1536

Shading Units

480

96

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

576.0 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

18W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Thames

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Thames XT (216-0833000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

104 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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