NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 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 X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
13.8x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 10.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	21 September 2015 vs 10 September 2006
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

285.7x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053
PassMark - G3D Mark		151
PassMark - G2D Mark		466

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	R500
Code name	GM204	R580+
Launch date	21 September 2015	10 September 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$395.82
Place in performance rating	562	328
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	90 nm
Pipelines	2048
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	384 million
Core clock speed		650 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 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	9.0c
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4
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