AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1178MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +118%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Jun 2016

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1664

56

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

148W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GM204

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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