AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon E8870

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8870

2.7x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
857.1x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

3x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 48 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 2048 vs 768
2.8x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 1,536 gflops

Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 48 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 768
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops vs 1,536 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Name	AMD Radeon E8870	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark	3368
PassMark - G2D Mark	708
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	36.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	874.689
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.11
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	18191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	18191
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4053

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8870	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Saturn	GM204
Launch date	29 September 2015	21 September 2015
Place in performance rating	340	562
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$395.82
Price now		$605.06
Value for money (0-100)		20.91
Technical info
Core clock speed	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,536 gflops	4,358 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	768	2048
Texture fill rate	48 GTexel / s	144 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	100-200 Watt
Transistor count	2,080 million	5,200 million
Boost clock speed		1216 MHz
CUDA cores		2048
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
OpenCL		1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB / s	224 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
BatteryBoost
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Surround