GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon RX 7600

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon RX 7600 with GeForce GTX 980M, including specs and performance data.

RX 7600
2023
8 GB GDDR6, 165 Watt
43.16
+126%

RX 7600 outperforms GTX 980M by a whopping 126% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking87300
Place by popularity90not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation93.53no data
Power efficiency17.9413.09
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022−2025)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameNavi 33GM204
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date24 May 2023 (1 year ago)7 October 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$269 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20481536
Core clock speed1720 MHz1038 MHz
Boost clock speed2655 MHz1127 MHz
Number of transistors13,300 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)165 Wattunknown
Texture fill rate339.851.84
Floating-point processing power21.75 TFLOPS1.659 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs12896
Ray Tracing Cores32no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Bus supportno dataPCI Express 3.0
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8MXM-B (3.0)
Length204 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone
SLI options-+

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s160 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1No outputs
VGA аnalog display supportno data+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) supportno data+
HDMI++
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

GameStream-+
GeForce ShadowPlay-+
GPU Boostno data2.0
GameWorks-+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder-+
Optimus-+
BatteryBoost-+
Ansel-+

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.4
OpenGL4.64.5
OpenCL2.21.1
Vulkan1.31.1.126
CUDA-+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RX 7600 43.16
+126%
GTX 980M 19.09

  • Other tests
    • Passmark
    • 3DMark 11 Performance GPU
    • 3DMark Vantage Performance
    • 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
    • 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
    • 3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RX 7600 16628
+126%
GTX 980M 7354

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RX 7600 43430
+247%
GTX 980M 12517

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RX 7600 114647
+259%
GTX 980M 31944

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RX 7600 32404
+235%
GTX 980M 9682

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 7600 183336
+181%
GTX 980M 65241

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 7600 646153
+97.2%
GTX 980M 327632

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:

900p350−400
+102%
173
−102%
Full HD145
+101%
72
−101%
1440p67
+86.1%
36
−86.1%
4K35
+29.6%
27
−29.6%

Cost per frame, $

1080p1.86no data
1440p4.01no data
4K7.69no data

FPS performance in popular games

  • Full HD
    Low Preset
  • Full HD
    Medium Preset
  • Full HD
    High Preset
  • Full HD
    Ultra Preset
  • Full HD
    Epic Preset
  • 1440p
    High Preset
  • 1440p
    Ultra Preset
  • 1440p
    Epic Preset
  • 4K
    High Preset
  • 4K
    Ultra Preset
  • 4K
    Epic Preset
  • Full HD
    High Preset
  • Full HD
    Ultra Preset
  • 1440p
    Ultra Preset
  • 4K
    Ultra Preset
Atomic Heart 213
+353%
45−50
−353%
Counter-Strike 2 135
+309%
30−35
−309%
Cyberpunk 2077 148
+289%
35−40
−289%
Atomic Heart 158
+236%
45−50
−236%
Battlefield 5 130−140
+64.6%
82
−64.6%
Counter-Strike 2 108
+227%
30−35
−227%
Cyberpunk 2077 117
+208%
35−40
−208%
Far Cry 5 183
+216%
58
−216%
Fortnite 170−180
−3.5%
178
+3.5%
Forza Horizon 4 150−160
+108%
74
−108%
Forza Horizon 5 110−120
+136%
50−55
−136%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 150−160
+83.5%
85
−83.5%
Valorant 230−240
+68.6%
130−140
−68.6%
Atomic Heart 93
+97.9%
45−50
−97.9%
Battlefield 5 130−140
+98.5%
68
−98.5%
Counter-Strike 2 90
+173%
30−35
−173%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
+20.9%
230
−20.9%
Cyberpunk 2077 100
+163%
35−40
−163%
Far Cry 5 174
+228%
53
−228%
Fortnite 170−180
+100%
86
−100%
Forza Horizon 4 150−160
+126%
68
−126%
Forza Horizon 5 110−120
+136%
50−55
−136%
Grand Theft Auto V 150
+150%
60
−150%
Metro Exodus 113
+265%
31
−265%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 150−160
+97.5%
79
−97.5%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 210
+244%
61
−244%
Valorant 230−240
+68.6%
130−140
−68.6%
Battlefield 5 130−140
+121%
61
−121%
Counter-Strike 2 81
+145%
30−35
−145%
Cyberpunk 2077 90
+137%
35−40
−137%
Far Cry 5 163
+226%
50
−226%
Forza Horizon 4 150−160
+228%
47
−228%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 150−160
+218%
49
−218%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 123
+273%
33
−273%
Valorant 230−240
+68.6%
130−140
−68.6%
Fortnite 170−180
+173%
63
−173%
Counter-Strike 2 30−35
+129%
14−16
−129%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
+112%
130−140
−112%
Grand Theft Auto V 77
+157%
30−33
−157%
Metro Exodus 65
+242%
19
−242%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
+3.6%
160−170
−3.6%
Valorant 260−270
+50.9%
170−180
−50.9%
Battlefield 5 100−110
+124%
45
−124%
Cyberpunk 2077 56
+229%
16−18
−229%
Far Cry 5 115
+238%
34
−238%
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
+195%
39
−195%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 86
+197%
27−30
−197%
Fortnite 100−110
+165%
40
−165%
Atomic Heart 30−35
+136%
14−16
−136%
Counter-Strike 2 20−22
+150%
8−9
−150%
Grand Theft Auto V 82
+100%
41
−100%
Metro Exodus 38
+217%
12
−217%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 59
+168%
22
−168%
Valorant 240−250
+141%
100−110
−141%
Battlefield 5 60−65
+178%
23
−178%
Counter-Strike 2 11
+37.5%
8−9
−37.5%
Cyberpunk 2077 24
+243%
7−8
−243%
Far Cry 5 57
+256%
16
−256%
Forza Horizon 4 75−80
+196%
26
−196%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 55−60
+224%
17
−224%
Fortnite 50−55
+179%
19
−179%
Dota 2 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
Dota 2 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
Forza Horizon 5 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%
Counter-Strike 2 20−22
+0%
20−22
+0%
Forza Horizon 5 30−35
+0%
30−35
+0%
Dota 2 60−65
+0%
60−65
+0%
Forza Horizon 5 16−18
+0%
16−18
+0%

This is how RX 7600 and GTX 980M compete in popular games:

  • RX 7600 is 102% faster in 900p
  • RX 7600 is 101% faster in 1080p
  • RX 7600 is 86% faster in 1440p
  • RX 7600 is 30% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Atomic Heart, with 1080p resolution and the Low Preset, the RX 7600 is 353% faster.
  • in Fortnite, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the GTX 980M is 3% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • RX 7600 is ahead in 59 tests (88%)
  • GTX 980M is ahead in 1 test (1%)
  • there's a draw in 7 tests (10%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 43.16 19.09
Recency 24 May 2023 7 October 2014
Chip lithography 6 nm 28 nm

RX 7600 has a 126.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon RX 7600 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 980M in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon RX 7600 is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 980M is a notebook one.

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