Product Compare
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Dec 2016 | Oct 2014 |
| Generation | Radeon Instinct | GeForce 900M |
| Type | Professional | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | MXM-B (3.0) |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1120 MHz | 1038 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1233 MHz | 1127 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1253 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 224.0GB/s | 160.4GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 36 | |
| Shading Units | 2304 | 1536 |
| TMUs | 144 | 96 |
| ROPs | 32 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 39.46 GPixel/s | 72.13 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 177.6 GTexel/s | 108.2 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 5.682 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 5.682 TFLOPS | 3.462 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 355.1 GFLOPS | 108.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Ellesmere | GM204 |
| GPU Variant | Ellesmere XT | N16E-GX-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
| Process Size | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 5.7 billion | 5.2 billion |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 150W | Unknown |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | |
| Outputs | No outputs | Portable Device Dependent |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | None |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.7 (6.4) |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |