NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R9 M385X
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R9 M385X 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
- Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
- Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 1100 MHz
- 2.3x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 61.6 GTexel / s
- 2.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 896
- 2.2x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 1,971 gflops
Launch date | 21 September 2015 vs 5 May 2015 |
Boost clock speed | 1216 MHz vs 1100 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 144 billion / sec vs 61.6 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 2048 vs 896 |
Floating-point performance | 4,358 gflops vs 1,971 gflops |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M385X
- 214.3x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Memory clock speed | 1500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M385X
Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) | AMD Radeon R9 M385X |
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3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 4053 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 4079 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 4079 | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 267 | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 1994 | |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 49760 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3707 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3707 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3357 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3357 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) | AMD Radeon R9 M385X | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 2.0 |
Code name | GM204 | Strato |
Launch date | 21 September 2015 | 5 May 2015 |
Launch price (MSRP) | $395.82 | |
Place in performance rating | 573 | 574 |
Price now | $605.06 | |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Value for money (0-100) | 20.91 | |
Design | AMD Radeon R9 300 Series | |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1216 MHz | 1100 MHz |
CUDA cores | 2048 | |
Floating-point performance | 4,358 gflops | 1,971 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
Pipelines | 2048 | 896 |
Texture fill rate | 144 billion / sec | 61.6 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 100-200 Watt | |
Transistor count | 5,200 million | 2,080 million |
Core clock speed | 1000 MHz | |
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 | No outputs |
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | 1 | |
G-SYNC support | ||
HDCP | ||
HDMI | ||
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Multi monitor support | ||
VGA аnalog display support | 1 | |
Eyefinity | ||
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 | large |
SLI options | 1 | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12 |
OpenCL | 1.2 | Not Listed |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.4 |
Mantle | ||
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 4 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 224 GB / s | 76.8 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 128 bit |
Memory clock speed | 7.0 GB/s | 1500 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
Shared memory | 0 | 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 | ||
DirectCompute 5.0 | ||
DualGraphics | ||
FreeSync | ||
HD3D | ||
PowerTune | ||
Switchable graphics | ||
ZeroCore |