Radeon RX 480 Mobile and GeForce GTX 980M - video card comparison

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

GeForce GTX 980M

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Polaris

GM204

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

August 2016

October 2014

Bus support

-

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

SLI options

-

+

Boost clock speed

1077 MHz

1127 MHz

Core clock speed

-

1038 MHz

CUDA cores

-

1536

Floating-point performance

4,963 gflops

3,462 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

unknown

Texture fill rate

155.1

51.84

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

160 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

VGA аnalog display support

-

+

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support

-

+

HDMI

-

+

G-SYNC support

-

+

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

6.4

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.1.126

Ansel

-

+

BatteryBoost

-

+

GameStream

-

+

GameWorks

-

+

GeForce ShadowPlay

-

+

GPU Boost

-

2.0

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

-

+

Optimus

-

+