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GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon RX 580 - video card comparison


GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

Radeon RX 580


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name
N16E-GXX SLI
Polaris 20

Market segment
Laptop
Desktop

Release date
September 2015
April 2017

Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1228 MHz
1340 MHz

Core clock speed
1126 MHz
1257 MHz

Floating-point performance
-
6,175 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm

Number of transistors
10400 Million
5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
2304

Power consumption (TDP)
330 Watt
185 Watt

Texture fill rate
-
193.0

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
8 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
3500 MHz
8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth
-
256.0 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI
-
+

G-SYNC support
+
-

DirectX
12_1
12 (12_0)

CUDA
+
-

OpenCL
-
2.0

OpenGL
-
4.6

Shader Model
-
6.4

Vulkan
-
1.2.131