NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R7 265

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R7 265 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 R7 265

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 925 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 59.2 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
2.3x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 1,894 gflops

Launch date	21 September 2015 vs 13 February 2014
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 59.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1024
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops vs 1,894 gflops

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 265

Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
200x more memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 265

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R7 265
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R7 265
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM204	Pitcairn
Launch date	21 September 2015	13 February 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$395.82	$149
Place in performance rating	562	1697
Price now	$605.06
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	20.91
Design		AMD Radeon R7 200 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz	925 MHz
CUDA cores	2048
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops	1,894 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	1024
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	59.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	2,800 million
Stream Processors		1024
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2	2x 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
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		210 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	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1400 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
DDMA audio
FreeSync