NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R9 M390X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R9 M390X 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 M390X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Around 47% better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 2,961 gflops

Launch date	21 September 2015 vs 5 May 2015
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops vs 2,961 gflops

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M390X

2.7x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 100-200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 100-200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M390X

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R9 M390X
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053
PassMark - G3D Mark		3851
PassMark - G2D Mark		487
Geekbench - OpenCL		22044
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		64.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1284.053
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.881
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		78.169
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		312.822
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6508
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		8593
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		24690
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6508
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		8593
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		24690

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R9 M390X
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	GM204	Amethyst
Launch date	21 September 2015	5 May 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$395.82
Place in performance rating	304	305
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
CUDA cores	2048
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops	2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	2048
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	5,000 million
Core clock speed		723 MHz
Video outputs and ports
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
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
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12
OpenCL	1.2	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Mantle
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	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
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore