NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Mar 2015
Generation
GeForce 900M
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1038 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1127 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
1024
TMUs
96
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
72.13 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.2 GTexel/s
59.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.462 TFLOPS
1.894 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
108.2 GFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
N16E-GX-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
150W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 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
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,916
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,767
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