ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (70W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +956%

3.92 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2016

M8x

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1664

16

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

9.280 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

371.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

74.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

TDP

148W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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