AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
561.7x more texture fill rate: 80.88 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
100x more memory clock speed: 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective) vs 7.0 GB/s

Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 21 September 2015
Texture fill rate	80.88 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed	700 MHz (1400 MHz effective) vs 7.0 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Around 60% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1280

Boost clock speed	1216 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Pipelines	2048 vs 1280

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
PassMark - G2D Mark	370
PassMark - G3D Mark	4769
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4053

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Polaris 22	GM204
Launch date	1 February 2018	21 September 2015
Place in performance rating	301	304
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$395.82
Price now		$605.06
Value for money (0-100)		20.91
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz	1216 MHz
Compute performance	20
Core clock speed	931 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	161.8 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.588 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.588 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1280	2048
Pixel fill rate	32.35 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	80.88 GTexel/s	144 billion / sec
Texture Units	65 Watt
Transistor count	5000 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		2048
Floating-point performance		4,358 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		100-200 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	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
Interface	IGP	MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.3
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	224 GB / s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
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