Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2014 Oct 2013
Generation GeForce 900M Volcanic Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1038 MHz
Boost Clock 1127 MHz
Memory Clock 1253 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 512bit
Bandwidth 160.4GB/s 320.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1536 2816
TMUs 96 176
ROPs 64 64
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 1024 KB
Compute Units 44
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 72.13 GPixel/s 64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 108.2 GTexel/s 176.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.462 TFLOPS 5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 108.2 GFLOPS 704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM204 Hawaii
GPU Variant N16E-GX-A1 Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.2 billion 6.2 billion
Die Size 398 mm² 438 mm²
Board Design
TDP Unknown 290W
Outputs Portable Device Dependent 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.2.170
CUDA 5.2
Shader Model 6.7 (6.4) 6.5