NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1178MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +620%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

1664

Shading Units

320

104

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Sun

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Sun LE

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

Board Design

148W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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