NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon RX 5600M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD Radeon RX 5600M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600M 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 6GB)

AMD Radeon RX 5600M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1265MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600M +68%

5.829 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980M

2945

Radeon RX 5600M +101%

5929

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon RX 5600M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jul 2020

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1035 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1265 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

1536

Shading Units

2304

96

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.96 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.66 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.829 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 10

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XME

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

251 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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