AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega M GL 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 M GL 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1178MHz vs 1011MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega M GL

2.588 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +51%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega M GL

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Feb 2018

Release Date

Jun 2016

Vega

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

IGP

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

931 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1011 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

1024bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.35 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

80.88 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

2.588 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.588 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

161.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

148W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 22

GPU Name

GM204

VegaM XL (D715A714)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

208 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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