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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

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

GPU 1

GPU 2

4053

4608

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R9 Nano
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053	4608

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Essentials
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
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
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
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
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	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
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