NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2016
Mar 2013
Generation
GeForce 900M
Southern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
240.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1664
1792
TMUs
104
112
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
28

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
75.39 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
89.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
2.867 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM204
Tahiti
GPU Variant
N16E-GXX-A1
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
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
148W
200W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
550 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
6.4
5.1