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
GPU 1
GPU 2
320
492
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1015
7358
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
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

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