AMD Radeon 530 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

VS

AMD Radeon 530 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 530 Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 530 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1127MHz vs 1024MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 530 Mobile

0.786 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +340%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon 530 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1536

24

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.192 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Weston

GPU Name

GM204

Weston PRO (216-0864032)

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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