NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs ATI FireMV 2250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and ATI FireMV 2250 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 60x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
Launch date 21 September 2015 vs 1 January 2007
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI FireMV 2250

  • 6.3x lower typical power consumption: 32 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
  • 142.9x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 32 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: ATI FireMV 2250

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) ATI FireMV 2250
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4053
PassMark - G3D Mark 46
PassMark - G2D Mark 290

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) ATI FireMV 2250

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 R500
Code name GM204 RV516
Launch date 21 September 2015 1 January 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $395.82
Place in performance rating 562 560
Price now $605.06
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 20.91

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1216 MHz
CUDA cores 2048
Floating-point performance 4,358 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 2048
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100-200 Watt 32 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 107 million
Core clock speed 600 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video, 1x DMS-59
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Length 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2
Shared memory 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