GeForce GTX 980M SLI and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980M SLI
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
-
Polaris 12
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
March 2017
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1127 MHz
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1038 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3072
512
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12_1
12.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
FreeSync
-
+
Optimus
+
-