
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and Radeon RX 570 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Radeon RX 570
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N16E-GXX
Polaris 20 Ellesmere
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
April 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1216 MHz
1244 MHz
Core clock speed
1064 MHz
1168 MHz
CUDA cores
2048
-
Floating-point performance
4,358 gflops
5,095 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
100-200 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
144 billion/sec
159.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
BatteryBoost
+
-
FreeSync
-
+
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-