NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R7 260

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R7 260 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, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

AMD Radeon R7 260

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 1100 MHz
3x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 48 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 2048 vs 768
2.8x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 1,536 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	21 September 2015 vs 17 December 2013
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 48 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 768
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops vs 1,536 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 260

Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
232.1x more memory clock speed: 1625 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed	1625 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 260

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R7 260
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053
PassMark - G3D Mark		2892
PassMark - G2D Mark		559
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		26.189
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		798.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		45.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		240.395

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R7 260
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	GM204	Bonaire
Launch date	21 September 2015	17 December 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$395.82	$109
Place in performance rating	571	574
Price now	$605.06	$89.99
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	20.91	44.11
Design		AMD Radeon R7 200 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz	1100 MHz
CUDA cores	2048
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops	1,536 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	768
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt	115 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	2,080 million
Stream Processors		896
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 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 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	1
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1 x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	104 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1625 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
DDMA audio
FreeSync