NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon R7 A260

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX AMD Radeon R7 A260

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 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 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1178MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +421%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A260

0.752 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

Radeon R7 A260

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1664

Shading Units

384

104

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.52 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Topaz

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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