AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1275 MHz vs 1216 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
857.1x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Launch date	11 April 2018 vs 21 September 2015
Boost clock speed	1275 MHz vs 1216 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Around 76% higher texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 81.6 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
Around 67% better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 2,611 gflops

Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 81.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1024
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops vs 2,611 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Name	AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
PassMark - G2D Mark	676
PassMark - G3D Mark	1810
Geekbench - OpenCL	17880
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4053

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Baffin	GM204
Launch date	11 April 2018	21 September 2015
Place in performance rating	302	304
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$395.82
Price now		$605.06
Value for money (0-100)		20.91
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1275 MHz	1216 MHz
Core clock speed	1175 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,611 gflops	4,358 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	2048
Texture fill rate	81.6 GTexel / s	144 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	100-200 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		2048
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	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
API support
Vulkan
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL		1.2
OpenGL		4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB / s	224 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR5	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