NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD Radeon RX 5500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500M 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1645MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500M +33%

4.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980M

2945

Radeon RX 5500M +46%

4320

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon RX 5500M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1375 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1645 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

-

1536

Shading Units

1408

96

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.64 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

144.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.265 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.632 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

289.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

85W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 14

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTM

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5

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