AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 5500M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 35% higher boost clock speed: 1645 MHz vs 1216 MHz
Around 1% higher texture fill rate: 144.76 GT/s vs 144 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Around 4% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4223 vs 4053

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Oct 2019 vs 21 September 2015
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz vs 1216 MHz
Texture fill rate	144.76 GT/s vs 144 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4223 vs 4053

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

4223

4053

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark	3166
PassMark - G2D Mark	336
Geekbench - OpenCL	38633
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11058
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11058
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3345
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4223	4053

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	Maxwell 2.0
Launch date	7 Oct 2019	21 September 2015
Place in performance rating	390	562
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Code name		GM204
Launch price (MSRP)		$395.82
Price now		$605.06
Value for money (0-100)		20.91
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz	1216 MHz
Compute units	22
Core clock speed	1448 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.26 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.63 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate	52.6 GP/s
Stream Processors	1408
Texture fill rate	144.76 GT/s	144 billion / sec
Transistor count	6400 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		2048
Floating-point performance		4,358 gflops
Pipelines		2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		100-200 Watt
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	224 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		7.0 GB/s
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
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
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
Display Connectors		Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support		1
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL		1.2
OpenGL		4.5