NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1178MHz vs 1000MHz)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +4%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1664

Shading Units

2048

104

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Amethyst

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

E8950

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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