NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon HD 7730

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and AMD Radeon HD 7730 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon HD 7730

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
7.5x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 19.2 GTexel / s
5.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 384
8.1x better floating-point performance: 4,981 gflops vs 614.4 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
9.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11104 vs 1193
2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 791 vs 394

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 September 2014 vs 1 May 2013
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 384
Floating-point performance	4,981 gflops vs 614.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11104 vs 1193
PassMark - G2D Mark	791 vs 394

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7730

3.5x lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 165 Watt
642.9x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt vs 165 Watt
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7730

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11104

1193

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

791

394

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980	AMD Radeon HD 7730
PassMark - G3D Mark	11104	1193
PassMark - G2D Mark	791	394
Geekbench - OpenCL	34883
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	110.006
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1348.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	9.194
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	37.443
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	477.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4321

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980	AMD Radeon HD 7730
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM204	Cape Verde
Launch date	19 September 2014	1 May 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$549	$59
Place in performance rating	363	364
Price now	$605.06	$49.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	21.18	37.12
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz
CUDA cores	2048
Floating-point performance	4,981 gflops	614.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	384
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	1,500 million
Core clock speed		800 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x 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
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)	168 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	500 Watt
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pins	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	4500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
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