NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1650 points

1% slightly better overall score

1632 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

32 FPS

33 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

35 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

31356 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

36756 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

1074 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz

1226 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.4 GB/s

224 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

49% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

83% significantly higher pixel rate

39.23 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

137.3 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS

4.39 TFLOPS

26% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

1792

16% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

16% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

230th of 586

232nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2019 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon RX 560 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980M beats the Radeon RX 560 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 560 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 560 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the Radeon RX 560 XT at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980M is faster than the Radeon RX 560 XT.