NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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 - 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 3.6x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 40 GTexel / s
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 640
  • 3.4x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 1,280 gflops
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • 5.7x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4053 vs 711
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 September 2015 vs 15 February 2012
Boost clock speed 1216 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec vs 40 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 640
Floating-point performance 4,358 gflops vs 1,280 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4053 vs 711

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

  • Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
  • 160.7x more memory clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed 1125 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
4053
711
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4053 711
PassMark - G3D Mark 2169
PassMark - G2D Mark 461
Geekbench - OpenCL 14263
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 33.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 506.712
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.01
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 153.657
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 4524
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 14630
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 4524
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 14630

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GM204 Cape Verde
Launch date 21 September 2015 15 February 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $395.82 $159
Place in performance rating 562 558
Price now $605.06
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 20.91
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1216 MHz 1000 MHz
CUDA cores 2048
Floating-point performance 4,358 gflops 1,280 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2048 640
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec 40 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100-200 Watt 125 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 1,500 million
Stream Processors 640

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support 1
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.5 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB / s 72 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 1125 MHz
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
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync