AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M SLI

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking208not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money6.74no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2018)Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code nameno dataPolaris
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 October 2014 (9 years old)10 January 2019 (5 years old)
Current price$1326 $410
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25602304
Core clock speed924 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1038 MHz1340 MHz
Number of transistors2x 5200 Million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)162 Watt65-110 Watt
Texture fill rateno data155.1

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Radeon RX 580X Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargelarge
Interfaceno dataMXM-B (3.0)
SLI options+no data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x 6 GB8 GB
Memory bus width2x 192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz8000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

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API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkanno data1.2.131
CUDA+no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 7 October 2014 10 January 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 162 Watt 65 Watt

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M SLI
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