NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX NVIDIA · 2016-06
GPU AMD Radeon R9 290X AMD · 2013-10
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2016
Oct 2013
Generation
GeForce 900M
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
2816
TMUs
104
176
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
—
44
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
75.39 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Hawaii
GPU Variant
N16E-GXX-A1
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
290W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
5.2
—
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.