AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2014
Sep 2015
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 900M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
-
1064 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1140 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
224.4GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
44
-
Shading Units
2816
2048
TMUs
176
128
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
72.96 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
145.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
4.669 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Hawaii
GM204
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
N16E-GXX-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
398 mm²

Board Design

TDP
580W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
950 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.7 (6.4)
CUDA
-
5.2