AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1301MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +137%

9.326 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +87%

589

GeForce GTX 980MX

314

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jun 2018

Release Date

Jun 2016

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1301 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1664

224

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

83.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

291.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

18.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.326 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

582.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

148W

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GM204

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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