GeForce GTX 980M SLI and Radeon RX 570 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980M SLI
Radeon RX 570
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
-
Polaris 20 Ellesmere
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
April 2017
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1127 MHz
1244 MHz
Core clock speed
1038 MHz
1168 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
5,095 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3072
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
159.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12_1
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
+
+
FreeSync
-
+
Optimus
+
-