AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1250MHz vs 1140MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +91%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

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GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Sep 2015

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

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8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

210W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7 (6.4)

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