AMD Radeon Pro W6600M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6600M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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: 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

AMD Radeon Pro W6600M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6600M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.4x more boost clock speed: 2903 MHz vs 1216 MHz
2257.6x more texture fill rate: 325.1 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 165 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
250x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 7.0 GB/s
Around 59% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 15257 vs 9566
Around 59% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 15257 vs 9566
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3716 vs 3690
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3716 vs 3690
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 3335
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 3335

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 Jun 2021 vs 19 September 2014
Boost clock speed	2903 MHz vs 1216 MHz
Texture fill rate	325.1 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 165 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 7.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	15257 vs 9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	15257 vs 9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3716 vs 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3716 vs 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358 vs 3335
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358 vs 3335

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Around 14% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1792

Pipelines	2048 vs 1792

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6600M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

15257

9566

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

15257

9566

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3716

3690

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3716

3690

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

3335

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

3335

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W6600M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	15257	9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	15257	9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3716	3690
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3716	3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358	3335
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358	3335
PassMark - G3D Mark		11123
PassMark - G2D Mark		798
Geekbench - OpenCL		33393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		110.006
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1348.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		9.194
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		37.443
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		477.015
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4330

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W6600M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Navi 23	GM204
Launch date	8 Jun 2021	19 September 2014
Place in performance rating	270	358
Launch price (MSRP)		$549
Price now		$605.06
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		21.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2903 MHz	1216 MHz
Compute units	28
Core clock speed	2200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	650.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	20.81 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.40 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1792	2048
Pixel fill rate	185.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	325.1 GTexel/s	144 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	165 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		2048
Floating-point performance		4,981 gflops
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
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pins
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
SLI options		1
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	224 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
BatteryBoost
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Surround