NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU)
vs
AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.14 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.67 TFLOPS.

The AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 has 4096 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.55 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 12.66 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 is based on the GCN 5 architecture and is equipped with 64 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) GPU AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) Based on AMD RX Vega 64
GM204 GPU Chip Vega 10 XT
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture GCN 5
16 Streaming Multiprocessors 64
2048 Shader 4096
64 Render Output Units 64
128 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 has a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.945GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type HBM2
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 0.945 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.9 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 484 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 2048 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) has a turbo clock of 1.140 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 is 1.546 GHz.

1.064 GHz Base Clock 1.247 GHz
1.140 GHz Boost Clock 1.546 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as Unknown.

The AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

-- TDP 295 W
-- TDP (up) --
Unknown Tjunction max 100 °C
PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) are cooled with a Air cooling.

The AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 is cooled by a Air cooling.

-- Fan-Type Radial
-- Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version --.

The AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
-- HDCP-Version 2.2
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
-- DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

4096x2160 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
No DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
No h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
No VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

-- Length 280 mm
-- Height 127 mm
-- Width 41 mm
-- Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile (Laptop GPU) was released in Q3/2015.

The AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q3/2015 Release date Q3/2017
-- Launch Price 499 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 14 nm
-- Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64
8 GB HBM2
64 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64
8 GB HBM2
92 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64
8 GB HBM2
128 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64
8 GB HBM2
67049

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64
8 GB HBM2
72946

Geekbench 6 - Metal

AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64
8 GB HBM2
76720

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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