NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
3.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 2x 320
5.1x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 512 MB

Launch date	21 September 2015 vs 4 April 2008
Pipelines	2048 vs 2x 320
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2x 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Around 46% higher texture fill rate: 2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 144 billion / sec
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
236.6x more memory clock speed: 1656 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Texture fill rate	2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 144 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed	1656 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053
PassMark - G3D Mark		822
PassMark - G2D Mark		422

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GM204	RV670
Launch date	21 September 2015	4 April 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$395.82	$349
Place in performance rating	562	344
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	2x 428.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2048	2x 320
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt	140 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	666 million
Core clock speed		669 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	1
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.0
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	2x 53.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1656 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
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