Radeon RX Vega Mobile vs GeForce GTX 560M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking745not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.00no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGF116Vega Mobile
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date30 May 2011 (13 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 years ago)

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 cores1921792
Core clock speed775 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,170 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate24.80no data
Floating-point processing power0.5952 TFLOPSno data
ROPs24no data
TMUs32no 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 sizelargemedium sized
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options2-way-

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 typeGDDR5HBM2
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB4 GB
Memory bus widthUp to 192 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidthUp to 60 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

Supported technologies

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

3D Blu-Ray+-
3D Gaming+-
Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API12_1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.5no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 May 2011 7 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 90 Watt

GTX 560M has 20% lower power consumption.

RX Vega Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 560M and Radeon RX Vega Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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