AMD Radeon HD 7950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 7950M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950M

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +160%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950M

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GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Sep 2015

London

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1064 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

22.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GM204

Wimbledon PRO

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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