NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile 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 10% (1178MHz vs 1074MHz)

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile +12%

4.399 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1074 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.37 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.399 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.399 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

85W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

232 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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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