AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2013
Oct 2014
Generation
Radeon Sky
GeForce 900M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1253 MHz
Base Clock
—
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1127 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
160.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1280
1536
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
72.13 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
76.00 GTexel/s
108.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.432 TFLOPS
3.462 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
152.0 GFLOPS
108.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GM204
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL(215-0828073)
N16E-GX-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7 (6.4)
CUDA
—
5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,916
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,767
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.