NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6850M XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 129% (2581MHz vs 1127MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6850M XT +281%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon RX 6850M XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

2321 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

-

1536

Shading Units

2560

96

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

165W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 22

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XTM

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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