Radeon RX Vega 56 and GeForce GTX 980MX - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 56
GeForce GTX 980MX
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Vega
GM204
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2017
June 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1474 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
1138 MHz
1050 MHz
Floating-point performance
10,566 gflops
3,920 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
1664
Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
148 Watt
Texture fill rate
329.5
122.5
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
409.6 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
409.6 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.125
1.1.126