GeForce GTX 980M and Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980M
Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
GM204
Vega Kaby Lake-G
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
January 2018
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
-
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1127 MHz
1011 MHz
Core clock speed
1038 MHz
931 MHz
CUDA cores
1536
-
Floating-point performance
3,462 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
51.84
-
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
-
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
160 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
-
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12_1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
-
OpenGL
4.5
-
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-