NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X 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 9% (1178MHz vs 1077MHz)

AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X Mobile +26%

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

Radeon RX 580X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1077 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

1664

Shading Units

2304

104

TMUs

144

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

34.46 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.963 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.963 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

310.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Polaris 20

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20M XT

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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