NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
- Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Boost clock speed | 1216 MHz vs 1000 MHz |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano
- Around 78% higher texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 144 billion / sec
- 2x more pipelines: 4096 vs 2048
- Around 88% better floating-point performance: 8,192 gflops vs 4,358 gflops
- Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
- 71.4x more memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
- Around 14% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4608 vs 4053
Specifications (specs) | |
Texture fill rate | 256.0 GTexel / s vs 144 billion / sec |
Pipelines | 4096 vs 2048 |
Floating-point performance | 8,192 gflops vs 4,358 gflops |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 175 Watt vs 100-200 Watt |
Memory clock speed | 500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s |
Benchmarks | |
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 4608 vs 4053 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Nano
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) | AMD Radeon R9 Nano |
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3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 4053 | 4608 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) | AMD Radeon R9 Nano | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 3.0 |
Code name | GM204 | Fiji |
Launch date | 21 September 2015 | 27 August 2015 |
Launch price (MSRP) | $395.82 | $649 |
Place in performance rating | 560 | 491 |
Price now | $605.06 | |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Value for money (0-100) | 20.91 | |
Design | AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series | |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1216 MHz | 1000 MHz |
CUDA cores | 2048 | |
Floating-point performance | 4,358 gflops | 8,192 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
Pipelines | 2048 | 4096 |
Texture fill rate | 144 billion / sec | 256.0 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 100-200 Watt | 175 Watt |
Transistor count | 5,200 million | 8,900 million |
Compute units | 64 | |
Stream Processors | 4096 | |
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 | 1x HDMI, 3x 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 |
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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 | |
SLI options | 1 | |
Bridgeless CrossFire | ||
Length | 152 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12 |
OpenCL | 1.2 | 2.0 |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Mantle | ||
Vulkan | ||
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 4 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 224 GB / s | 512 GB/s |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 4096 bit |
Memory clock speed | 7.0 GB/s | 500 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) |
Shared memory | 0 | 0 |
High bandwidth memory (HBM) | ||
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 | ||
AppAcceleration | ||
CrossFire | ||
DDMA audio | ||
FreeSync | ||
FRTC | ||
HD3D | ||
LiquidVR | ||
PowerTune | ||
TressFX | ||
TrueAudio | ||
Video Code Engine (VCE) | ||
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) | ||
ZeroCore |