NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon R5 Graphics

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX and AMD Radeon R5 Graphics videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

AMD Radeon R5 Graphics

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

5.3x more core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 200 MHz
Around 47% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 800 MHz
10.1x more texture fill rate: 122.5 GTexel / s vs 12.13 GTexel / s
6.5x more pipelines: 1664 vs 256
10.1x better floating-point performance: 3,920 gflops vs 388.1 gflops

Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	122.5 GTexel / s vs 12.13 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1664 vs 256
Floating-point performance	3,920 gflops vs 388.1 gflops

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 Graphics

9.9x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 148 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 148 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 Graphics

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX	AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
Geekbench - OpenCL		2956
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		6.166
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		119.568
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		12.649
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		42.459
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		966
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1363
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1915
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		966
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1363
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1915

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX	AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	GM204	Wani
Launch date	1 June 2016	31 May 2016
Place in performance rating	not rated	1561
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz	800 MHz
Core clock speed	1050 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,920 gflops	388.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1664	256
Texture fill rate	122.5 GTexel / s	12.13 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	148 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	2,410 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	System Shared