NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

AMD Radeon R9 M470

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +155%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

Radeon R9 M470

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

1664

Shading Units

768

104

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Emerald

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Emerald PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

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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