AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 560 4 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

825 points

1650 points

100% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

32 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

25 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

22 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

21 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1833 points

2939 points

60% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.09 points

264.38 points

103% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21086 points

23785 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19493 points

26093 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20226 points

24516 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23100 points

23881 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1175 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

1038 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1275 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1127 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

160.4 GB/s

43% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

25% slightly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigapixels/s

72.13 Gigapixels/s

253% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

81.6 Gigatexels/s

108.2 Gigatexels/s

32% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.61 TFLOPS

3.46 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1536

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

278th of 594

233rd of 594

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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 560 vs GeForce GTX 980M specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 560 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 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560 has a slightly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 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 GeForce GTX 980M over the Radeon RX 560.