NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7690M XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +397%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7690M XT

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon HD 7690M XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2013

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

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1536

Shading Units

480

96

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Thames

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Thames XTX

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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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