Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Sep 2015 | Aug 2012 |
| Generation | GeForce 900M | Southern Islands |
| Type | Mobile | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1064 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1140 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 224.4GB/s | 264.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 2048 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 128 | 128 |
| ROPs | 64 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SMM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | 768 KB |
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 72.96 GPixel/s | 29.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 145.9 GTexel/s | 118.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.669 TFLOPS | 3.789 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 145.9 GFLOPS | 947.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM204 | New Zealand |
| GPU Variant | N16E-GXX-A1 | |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 5.2 billion | 4.313 billion |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | Unknown | 500W |
| Outputs | Portable Device Dependent | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | None | 3x 8-pin |
| Suggested PSU | 900 W | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 (6.4) | 5.1 |