AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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

Released 4 years and 3 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X Mobile

2.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +57%

3.462 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560X Mobile

1827

GeForce GTX 980M +61%

2945

Radeon RX 560X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Oct 2014

Mobility Radeon

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

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1536

56

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

68.49 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

2.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

137.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 31

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 31 MXL

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

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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