NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz 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: 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 980M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 1000 MHz
• Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
• 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 225 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
• 2.1x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1200 MHz
• Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7356 vs 4617
• Around 67% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 92.634 vs 55.446
• Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1146.534 vs 952.668
• Around 45% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 6.776 vs 4.68
• Around 5% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 308.42 vs 294.215
• Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 10572 vs 6821
• Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 10572 vs 6821

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

• Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 80 GTexel / s vs 51.84 GTexel / s
• Around 54% better floating-point performance: 2,560 gflops vs 1,659 gflops
• Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 591 vs 491
• 3.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 77430 vs 23820
• 3.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 64.456 vs 18.431
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3716 vs 3695
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3716 vs 3695
• 2.5x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1651 vs 648

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7356 4617
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	491 591
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	23820 77430
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	92.634 55.446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1146.534 952.668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6.776 4.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	18.431 64.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	308.42 294.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	10572 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3695 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3342 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	10572 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3695 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3342 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	648 1651

Compare specifications (specs)