NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI Radeon X800 GT
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and ATI Radeon X800 GT 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.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
- Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 10 month(s) later
- 37.9x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 3.8 GTexel / s
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
- 32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
- 132.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11113 vs 84
- Around 87% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 791 vs 423
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 19 September 2014 vs 1 November 2005 |
| Texture fill rate | 144 billion / sec vs 3.8 GTexel / s |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 110 nm |
| Maximum memory size | 4 GB vs 128 MB |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 11113 vs 84 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 791 vs 423 |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 GT
- 4.1x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 165 Watt
- 140.9x more memory clock speed: 986 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 40 Watt vs 165 Watt |
| Memory clock speed | 986 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 GT
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 | ATI Radeon X800 GT |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 11113 | 84 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 791 | 423 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 34898 | |
| 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 | 475 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 | ATI Radeon X800 GT | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | R400 |
| Code name | GM204 | R430 |
| Launch date | 19 September 2014 | 1 November 2005 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $549 | |
| Place in performance rating | 379 | 385 |
| Price now | $605.06 | |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Value for money (0-100) | 21.18 | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 1216 MHz | |
| CUDA cores | 2048 | |
| Floating-point performance | 4,981 gflops | |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 110 nm |
| Pipelines | 2048 | |
| Texture fill rate | 144 billion / sec | 3.8 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 165 Watt | 40 Watt |
| Transistor count | 5,200 million | 160 million |
| Core clock speed | 475 MHz | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| 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 VGA, 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 |
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| Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
| Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
| Length | 10.5" (26.7 cm) | |
| Recommended system power (PSU) | 500 Watt | |
| SLI options | 1 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pins | None |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 9.0b |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | 2.0 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 128 MB |
| Memory bandwidth | 224 GB / s | 31.55 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 7.0 GB/s | 986 MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | DDR |
| Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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| 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 | ||
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