NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1127MHz vs 800MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980M
+238%
3.462 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition
1.024 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2014
Release Date
May 2015
GeForce 900M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1038 MHz
Base Clock
775 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
800 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
640
96
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
72.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
108.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.462 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1024 GFLOPS
108.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
64.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Tropo
N16E-GX-A1
GPU Variant
Tropo XT
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
5.2
CUDA
-
6.7 (6.4)
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
