NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon R5 A255

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M AMD Radeon R5 A255

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A255 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1127MHz vs 940MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +380%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A255

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon R5 A255

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

940 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1536

Shading Units

384

96

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.520 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

721.9 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Topaz

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5

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