NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon HD 8530M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M AMD Radeon HD 8530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1127MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +672%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8530M

0.448 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon HD 8530M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1536

Shading Units

320

96

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

448.0 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Mars

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Mars S3 LE (216-0842054)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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