NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
9.2x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 15.6 GTexel / s
4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 480
7x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 624.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB

Launch date	21 September 2015 vs 23 July 2013
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 480
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops vs 624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand

3.3x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
228.6x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM204	Turks
Launch date	21 September 2015	23 July 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$395.82
Place in performance rating	562	1698
Price now	$605.06
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	20.91
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz
CUDA cores	2048
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2048	480
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt	60 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	716 million
Core clock speed		650 MHz
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, 1x VGA
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
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	1
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
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