Radeon Graphics vs GeForce GTX 980MX

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated892
Place by popularitynot in top-10010
Power efficiencyno data9.43
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGM204Renoir
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores1664448
Core clock speed1050 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1178 MHz1500 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)148 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate122.542.00
Floating-point processing power3.92 TFLOPS1.344 TFLOPS
ROPs648
TMUs10428

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/sno data

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 outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 148 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics has a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 886.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980MX and Radeon Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980MX is a notebook card while Radeon Graphics is a desktop one.


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