AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile 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 RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1178MHz vs 1077MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 Mobile +26%

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2016

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1077 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1664

144

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

34.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

155.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

4.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.963 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

310.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

148W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM204

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

232 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

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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