NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R9 390 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/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 390

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 38% lower typical power consumption: 100-200 Watt vs 275 Watt
4.2x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4053 vs 957

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 September 2015 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt vs 275 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053 vs 957

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390

Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 160.0 GTexel / s vs 144 billion / sec
Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
Around 17% better floating-point performance: 5,120 gflops vs 4,358 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
142.9x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Texture fill rate	160.0 GTexel / s vs 144 billion / sec
Pipelines	2560 vs 2048
Floating-point performance	5,120 gflops vs 4,358 gflops
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

4053

957

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R9 390
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053	957
PassMark - G3D Mark		8893
PassMark - G2D Mark		792
Geekbench - OpenCL		43907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		120.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3164.164
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		11.097
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		116.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		607.381
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R9 390
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	GM204	Grenada
Launch date	21 September 2015	18 June 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$395.82	$329
Place in performance rating	315	317
Price now	$605.06
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	20.91
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz	1000 MHz
CUDA cores	2048
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops	5,120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	2560
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	160.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt	275 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	6,200 million
Compute units		40
Stream Processors		2560
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
Length		275 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-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	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	384 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	512 bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	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
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore