NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64

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Combined performance score

Pro Vega 64
33.50

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile outperforms Radeon Pro Vega 64 by 16% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking147108
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money1.9776.61
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code nameVega 10N16E-GXX SLI
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date27 June 2017 (6 years old)22 September 2015 (8 years old)
Current price$6074 $301
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GTX 980 SLI Mobile has 3789% better value for money than Pro Vega 64.

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 cores40964096
Core clock speed1250 MHz1126 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHz1228 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million10400 Million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt330 Watt
Texture fill rate345.6no data
Floating-point performance11,059 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon Pro Vega 64 and GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI optionsno 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 typeHBM2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 GB2x 8 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1572 MHz3500 MHz
Memory bandwidth402.4 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data-

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 outputsno data
G-SYNC supportno data+

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.1.125no data
CUDAno data+

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD110−120
−23.6%
136
+23.6%
4K55−60
−16.4%
64
+16.4%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 33.50 38.73
Recency 27 June 2017 22 September 2015
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 330 Watt

The GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon Pro Vega 64 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon Pro Vega 64 is a workstation card while GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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