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.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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: 7357 vs 1015

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1127 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	492 vs 320
PassMark - G3D Mark	7357 vs 1015

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

492

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1015

7357

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	492
PassMark - G3D Mark	1015	7357
Geekbench - OpenCL		23724
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
Essentials
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
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
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
Display Connectors		No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
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
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI