AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB, 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

2142 points

29% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

32 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

21 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2939 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

264.38 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26093 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24516 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23881 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1038 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1127 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

224 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

160.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

100 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

72.13 Gigapixels/s

78% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

68% significantly higher texture rate

108.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

68% significantly better floating point performance

3.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

49% significantly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

49% significantly 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

199th of 586

231st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2014 October

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

Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 980M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 480 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M in gaming.

The Radeon RX 480 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 480 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 480 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 480 over the GeForce GTX 980M.