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.

 

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 1728
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 1728

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
1728
4053
Name AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark 4102
PassMark - G2D Mark 576
Geekbench - OpenCL 17594
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 970.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 76.881
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 237.944
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 115.4
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1728 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 570 572
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