AMD Radeon Pro 5600M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5600M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 936.4x more texture fill rate: 164.8 GTexel/s vs 176 billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • 110x more memory clock speed: 770 MHz (1540 MHz effective) vs 7.0 GB/s
  • Around 29% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 48379 vs 37536
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3715 vs 3695
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3715 vs 3695
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 Jun 2020 vs 2 June 2015
Texture fill rate 164.8 GTexel/s vs 176 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 770 MHz (1540 MHz effective) vs 7.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 48379 vs 37536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715 vs 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715 vs 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354 vs 3338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354 vs 3338

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

  • Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1075 MHz vs 1030 MHz
  • Around 10% higher pipelines: 2816 vs 2560
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 10471 vs 10296
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 10471 vs 10296
  • Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 854 vs 687
  • Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13811 vs 9313
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1075 MHz vs 1030 MHz
Pipelines 2816 vs 2560
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10471 vs 10296
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10471 vs 10296
PassMark - G2D Mark 854 vs 687
PassMark - G3D Mark 13811 vs 9313

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5600M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
48379
37536
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
10296
10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
10296
10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3715
3695
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3715
3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3354
3338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3354
3338
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
687
854
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9313
13811
Name AMD Radeon Pro 5600M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Geekbench - OpenCL 48379 37536
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10296 10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10296 10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354 3338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354 3338
PassMark - G2D Mark 687 854
PassMark - G3D Mark 9313 13811
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 145.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1722.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 11.661
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 37.16
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 788.464
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5756

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 5600M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Navi 12 GM200
Launch date 15 Jun 2020 2 June 2015
Place in performance rating 271 298
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Price now $679.99
Value for money (0-100) 23.43

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1030 MHz 1075 MHz
Compute units 40
Core clock speed 1000 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 329.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.55 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.274 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 2816
Pixel fill rate 65.92 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 164.8 GTexel/s 176 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 250 Watt
CUDA cores 2816
Floating-point performance 6,060 gflops
Transistor count 8,000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 6-pin + 8-pin
Width IGP
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
SLI options 4x

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 394.2 GB/s 336.5 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 770 MHz (1540 MHz effective) 7.0 GB/s
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround