GeForce GTX 980M SLI and Radeon RX 6500M - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980M SLI

Radeon RX 6500M

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

-

Navi 24

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

October 2014

January 2022

Interface

-

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1127 MHz

2191 MHz

Core clock speed

1038 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

2x 5200 Million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

153.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

288.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

-

2.1

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.6

Vulkan

+

1.2

Optimus

+

-