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)
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)

Essentials

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

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

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

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

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan
OpenCL 1.2

Memory

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

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