AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 Mobile 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 RX 560 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1127MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 109.4GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 Mobile

1.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +87%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jan 2017

Release Date

Oct 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

784 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

109.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1536

56

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

57.79 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

1.849 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

115.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GM204

BaffinM-XT

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7 (6.4)

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