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).
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 |
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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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 | 573 | 576 |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12 |
OpenCL | 1.2 | |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Memory |
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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 |
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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 |