NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon E9171 MCM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX AMD Radeon E9171 MCM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 4GB VRAM Radeon E9171 MCM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E9171 MCM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1219MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (40W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +214%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon E9171 MCM

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

Radeon E9171 MCM

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1664

Shading Units

512

104

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Lexa

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa MCM Pro

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

40W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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