AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking232not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money29.66no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2018)Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code nameN16E-GXXPolaris
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date22 September 2014 (9 years old)1 August 2016 (7 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$395.82 $450
Current price$251 (0.6x MSRP)$577 (1.3x MSRP)
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 cores20482304
CUDA cores2048no data
Core clock speed1064 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1216 MHz1077 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100-200 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate144 billion/sec155.1
Floating-point performance4,358 gflops4,963 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and Radeon RX 480 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
Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-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 amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed7.0 GB/s8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth224 GB/s256.0 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 ConnectorsDual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2No outputs
Multi monitor support4 displaysno data
VGA аnalog display support+no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support+no data
HDMI+no data
HDCP+no data
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
G-SYNC support+no data
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

Technologies

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

GameStream+no data
GeForce ShadowPlay+no data
GPU Boost2.0no data
GameWorks+no data
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder+no data
Optimus+no data
BatteryBoost+no data

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA+no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 22 September 2014 1 August 2016
Cost $395.82 $450
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

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