AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics

  • 9.9x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 148 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 148 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

  • 5.3x more core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • Around 96% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 600 MHz
Core clock speed 1050 MHz vs 200 MHz
Boost clock speed 1178 MHz vs 600 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Stoney GM204
Launch date 1 June 2016 1 June 2016
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 600 MHz 1178 MHz
Core clock speed 200 MHz 1050 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 148 Watt
Transistor count 3,100 million 5,200 million
Floating-point performance 3,920 gflops
Pipelines 1664
Texture fill rate 122.5 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5

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