NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon Pro 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 580X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1200MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (218.9GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X +59%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon Pro 580X

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 900M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1710 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

218.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

1536

Shading Units

2304

96

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.530 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.530 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

345.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

185W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

2x HDMI 2.0b

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

232 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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