AMD Radeon Pro 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 580 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 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 Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1200MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580 +59%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Oct 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

217.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM204

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

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

Board Design

185W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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)

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