AMD Radeon RX 560X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560X 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.
Differences
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560X
- Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
- Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1275 MHz vs 1216 MHz
- 566.7x more texture fill rate: 81.60 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
- 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
- 1000x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Launch date | 3 April 2018 vs 21 September 2015 |
Boost clock speed | 1275 MHz vs 1216 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 81.60 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec |
Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm vs 28 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 75 Watt vs 100-200 Watt |
Memory clock speed | 7000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
- 2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
- 1676.2x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 2.6 TFLOPs
Pipelines | 2048 vs 1024 |
Floating-point performance | 4,358 gflops vs 2.6 TFLOPs |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Name | AMD Radeon RX 560X | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) |
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GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 5698 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 5698 | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 669 | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 3553 | |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 16361 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 4873 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 4873 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3357 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3357 | |
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 4053 |
Compare specifications (specs)
AMD Radeon RX 560X | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | GCN 4.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
Code name | Polaris 21 | GM204 |
Design | Radeon RX 500X Series | |
GCN generation | 4th Gen | |
Launch date | 3 April 2018 | 21 September 2015 |
Place in performance rating | 384 | 560 |
Type | Desktop, Laptop | Laptop |
Launch price (MSRP) | $395.82 | |
Price now | $605.06 | |
Value for money (0-100) | 20.91 | |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1275 MHz | 1216 MHz |
Compute units | 14/16 | |
Core clock speed | 1175 MHz | |
Floating-point performance | 2.6 TFLOPs | 4,358 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | 28 nm |
Pipelines | 1024 | 2048 |
Pixel fill rate | 20.40 GP/s | |
Render output units | 16 | |
Stream Processors | 896/1024 | |
Texture fill rate | 81.60 GTexel/s | 144 billion / sec |
Texture Units | 64 | |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 75 Watt | 100-200 Watt |
Transistor count | 3,000 million | 5,200 million |
CUDA cores | 2048 | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 |
DisplayPort support | ||
Dual-link DVI support | ||
HDMI | ||
VGA | ||
Audio input for HDMI | Internal | |
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | 1 | |
G-SYNC support | ||
HDCP | ||
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Multi monitor support | ||
VGA аnalog display support | 1 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | MXM-B (3.0) |
Length | 170 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
Laptop size | large | |
SLI options | 1 | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12 | 12.0 (12_1) |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Vulkan | ||
OpenCL | 1.2 | |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 4 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 112 GB/s | 224 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 bit | 256 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 7000 MHz | 7.0 GB/s |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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4K H264 Decode | ||
4K H264 Encode | ||
AMD Radeon™ Chill | ||
AMD Radeon™ ReLive | ||
AppAcceleration | ||
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 |