NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon HD 8760 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and AMD Radeon HD 8760 OEM 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 980M

AMD Radeon HD 8760 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 30% higher texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 40 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 640
Around 30% better floating-point performance: 1,659 gflops vs 1,280 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	7 October 2014 vs 8 January 2013
Core clock speed	1038 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	51.84 GTexel / s vs 40 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 640
Floating-point performance	1,659 gflops vs 1,280 gflops
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8760 OEM

Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 100 Watt
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 2500 MHz
Around 92% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 45762 vs 23820

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 2500 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	45762 vs 23820

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8760 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

23820

45762

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M	AMD Radeon HD 8760 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	7354
PassMark - G2D Mark	491
Geekbench - OpenCL	23820	45762
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	92.634
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1146.534
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.431
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	308.42
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	648

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M	AMD Radeon HD 8760 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM204	Cape Verde
Launch date	7 October 2014	8 January 2013
Place in performance rating	472	475
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1127 MHz
Core clock speed	1038 MHz	1000 MHz
CUDA cores	1536
Floating-point performance	1,659 gflops	1,280 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1536	640
Texture fill rate	51.84 GTexel / s	40 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		210 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	160 GB / s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI