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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2016 Jun 2017
Generation GeForce 900M Radeon Pro
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1050 MHz 1382 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 945 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 16GB
Memory Type GDDR5 HBM2
Memory Bus 256bit 2048bit
Bandwidth 192.0GB/s 483.8GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1664 4096
TMUs 104 256
ROPs 64 64
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 4 MB
Compute Units 64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 75.39 GPixel/s 102.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 122.5 GTexel/s 409.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.920 TFLOPS 13.11 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 122.5 GFLOPS 819.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 26.21 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM204 Vega 10
GPU Variant N16E-GXX-A1 Vega 10 XTX AIR
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 5.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 5.2 billion 12.5 billion
Die Size 398 mm² 495 mm²
Board Design
TDP 148W 300W
Outputs No outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 2x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 700 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
CUDA 5.2
Shader Model 6.4 6.4