NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1250MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +128%

8.96 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 980MX

252

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +106%

521

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1138 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

56

1664

Shading Units

3584

104

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Vega 10

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

210W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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