AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 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 Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1250MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +128%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +106%

521

GeForce GTX 980MX

252

Radeon Pro Vega 56

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GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1664

224

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GM204

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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