AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
1000x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Launch date	8 August 2016 vs 21 September 2015
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 1200 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 67.2 GTexel / s
2.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 896
1980.9x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
2.3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4053 vs 1730

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 67.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 896
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053 vs 1730

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1730

4053

Name	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark	4103
PassMark - G2D Mark	574
Geekbench - OpenCL	17736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	55.048
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	969.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	76.807
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	239.111
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	115.4
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1730	4053

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Baffin	GM204
Design	Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	8 August 2016	21 September 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$86	$395.82
Place in performance rating	569	571
Price now	$179.50	$605.06
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	33.86	20.91
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	1216 MHz
Compute units	14
Core clock speed	1090 MHz
Floating-point performance	2.2 TFLOPs	4,358 gflops
GPU Power	35-48 Watt
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	896	2048
Stream Processors	896
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s	144 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt	100-200 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		2048
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	170 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	224 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore
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