AMD Radeon R5 M330 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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AMD Radeon R5 M330 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M330 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 R5 M330 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1127MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M330

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +425%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M330

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GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Oct 2014

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

955 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1030 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

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1536

20

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Exo

GPU Name

GM204

Exo PRO

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

18W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

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

5.0

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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