AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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.
Differences
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
- Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Launch date | 7 January 2018 vs 7 October 2014 |
Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm vs 28 nm |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
- Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 1100 MHz
- Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 492 vs 320
- 7.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7358 vs 1015
Specifications (specs) | |
Boost clock speed | 1127 MHz vs 1100 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 492 vs 320 |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 7358 vs 1015 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
PassMark - G2D Mark |
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PassMark - G3D Mark |
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Name | AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M |
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PassMark - G2D Mark | 320 | 492 |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 1015 | 7358 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 23749 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 92.634 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1146.534 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 6.776 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 18.431 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 308.42 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 10572 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3695 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3342 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 10572 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3695 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3342 | |
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 2955 |
Compare specifications (specs)
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | GCN 5th gen | Maxwell 2.0 |
Code name | Vega Raven Ridge | GM204 |
Launch date | 7 January 2018 | 7 October 2014 |
Place in performance rating | 456 | 457 |
Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1100 MHz | 1127 MHz |
Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | 28 nm |
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance | 384 | |
Transistor count | 4500 million | 5,200 million |
Core clock speed | 1038 MHz | |
CUDA cores | 1536 | |
Floating-point performance | 1,659 gflops | |
Pipelines | 1536 | |
Texture fill rate | 51.84 GTexel / s | |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 100 Watt | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.1 | 12.0 (12_1) |
OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.1 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
Shader Model | 6.0 | |
Vulkan | ||
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | |
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | 1 | |
G-SYNC support | ||
HDMI | ||
VGA аnalog display support | 1 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
Laptop size | large | |
SLI options | 1 | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | |
Memory bandwidth | 160 GB / s | |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | |
Memory clock speed | 2500 MHz | |
Memory type | GDDR5 | |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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Ansel | ||
BatteryBoost | ||
CUDA | ||
DSR | ||
GameStream | ||
GameWorks | ||
GeForce Experience | ||
GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
GPU Boost | ||
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
Optimus | ||
SLI |