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.

AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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