NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon R7 Graphics

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX and AMD Radeon R7 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

AMD Radeon R7 Graphics

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

5.3x more core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 200 MHz
Around 55% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 758 MHz
7.4x more texture fill rate: 122.5 GTexel / s vs 16.46 GTexel / s
4.3x more pipelines: 1664 vs 384
7.4x better floating-point performance: 3,920 gflops vs 526.8 gflops

Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz vs 758 MHz
Texture fill rate	122.5 GTexel / s vs 16.46 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1664 vs 384
Floating-point performance	3,920 gflops vs 526.8 gflops

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 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 R7 Graphics

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX	AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
Geekbench - OpenCL		22612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		15.145
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		206.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		24.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		85.46
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1979
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2101
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		33.5
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		33.9
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		60
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1457

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX	AMD Radeon R7 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	1474
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz	758 MHz
Core clock speed	1050 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,920 gflops	526.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1664	384
Texture fill rate	122.5 GTexel / s	16.46 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