AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 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 R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

1.962 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +76%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

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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 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1038 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.66 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

61.31 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

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1.962 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

122.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GM204

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-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

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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