AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E9550 MXM and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon E9550 MXM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1266MHz vs 1127MHz)
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon E9550 MXM
+68%
5.834 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980M
3.462 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2016
Release Date
Oct 2014
Embedded
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1120 MHz
Base Clock
1038 MHz
1266 MHz
Boost Clock
1127 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
1536
144
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
40.51 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
72.13 GPixel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.2 GTexel/s
5.834 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.834 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.462 TFLOPS
364.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
108.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GM204
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
N16E-GX-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
232 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
6.7 (6.4)
