AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 580 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1127MHz vs 1077MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 Mobile +43%

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Apr 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

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1077 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

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

72.13 GPixel/s

155.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

4.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.963 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

310.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 20M XT

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-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

6.7 (6.4)

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