GeForce GTX 980MX and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980MX
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GM204
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
148 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
122.5
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
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DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
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