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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 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 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1301MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +169%

9.326 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

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Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2018

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1138 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1301 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

56

1536

Shading Units

3584

96

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

83.26 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

291.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.65 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.326 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

582.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Vega 10

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

120W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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