Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Sep 2015 | Nov 2014 |
| Generation | GeForce 900M | Crystal System |
| Type | Mobile | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1064 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1140 MHz | 975 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 1365 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 224.4GB/s | 174.7GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 2048 | 1024 |
| TMUs | 128 | 64 |
| ROPs | 64 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SMM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | 512 KB |
| Compute Units | 16 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 72.96 GPixel/s | 31.20 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 145.9 GTexel/s | 62.40 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.669 TFLOPS | 1.997 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 145.9 GFLOPS | 124.8 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM204 | Pitcairn |
| GPU Variant | N16E-GXX-A1 | Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062) |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 5.2 billion | 2.8 billion |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | 212 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | Unknown | 80W |
| Outputs | Portable Device Dependent | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | None | None |
| 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 |