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 |
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Name | AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) |
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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) | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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DirectX | 12 | 12.0 (12_1) |
OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Vulkan | ||
Memory |
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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 |
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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 |