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Radeon RX Vega 56 and GeForce GTX 980M - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX Vega 56 vs GeForce GTX 980M

Radeon RX Vega 56
13659
GeForce GTX 980M
7566

Radeon RX Vega 56

GeForce GTX 980M


Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Vega
GM204

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
August 2017
October 2014

Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
None

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1474 MHz
1127 MHz

Core clock speed
1138 MHz
1038 MHz

CUDA cores
-
1536

Floating-point performance
10,566 gflops
3,462 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
12,500 million
5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
1536

Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
unknown

Texture fill rate
329.5
51.84

Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB

Memory bus width
409.6 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2500 MHz

Memory bandwidth
409.6 GB/s
160 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs

VGA аnalog display support
-
+

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+

HDMI
+
+

G-SYNC support
-
+

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)

CUDA
-
+

OpenCL
2.0
1.1

OpenGL
4.6
4.5

Shader Model
6.4
6.4

Vulkan
1.1.125
1.1.126

Ansel
-
+

BatteryBoost
-
+

GameStream
-
+

GameWorks
-
+

GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+

GPU Boost
-
2.0

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+

Optimus
-
+