NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +494%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

Radeon 520 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

1664

Shading Units

320

104

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Banks

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

56 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

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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