NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 25% (1127MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +50%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Neptune

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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