AMD Radeon 530X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1178MHz vs 1024MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 530X Mobile

0.786 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +398%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon 530X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

36.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1664

24

TMUs

104

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

75.39 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

148W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 24

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 24 XT (216-0867030)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-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

6.4

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