NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R9 380

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R9 380 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), 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

AMD Radeon R9 380

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
Around 25% higher boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 970 MHz
Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 108.6 GTexel / s
Around 14% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1792
Around 25% better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 3,476 gflops
Around 45% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4053 vs 2791

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 September 2015 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz vs 970 MHz
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 108.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1792
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops vs 3,476 gflops
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053 vs 2791

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 380

Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 190 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
138.6x more memory clock speed: 970 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	190 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed	970 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 380

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

4053

2791

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R9 380
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053	2791
PassMark - G3D Mark		6152
PassMark - G2D Mark		656
Geekbench - OpenCL		76397
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		58.135
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1503.633
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7635
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7635
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R9 380
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	GM204	Antigua
Launch date	21 September 2015	18 June 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$395.82	$199
Place in performance rating	562	374
Price now	$605.06	$264.99
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	20.91	31.71
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz	970 MHz
CUDA cores	2048
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops	3,476 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	1792
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	108.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt	190 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	5,000 million
Compute units		28
Stream Processors		1792
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
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
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
Bridgeless CrossFire
Form factor		Full Height / Full Length Dual Slot
Length		221 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2 x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Mantle
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	182.4 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	970 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
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
FRTC
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore