NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and AMD Radeon R5 235X 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 R5 235X OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 875 MHz
7.4x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
9.6x more pipelines: 1536 vs 160
5.9x better floating-point performance: 1,659 gflops vs 280.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
26.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7352 vs 277
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 499 vs 202

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 October 2014 vs 21 December 2013
Core clock speed	1038 MHz vs 875 MHz
Texture fill rate	51.84 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 160
Floating-point performance	1,659 gflops vs 280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	7352 vs 277
PassMark - G2D Mark	499 vs 202

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

5.6x lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7352

277

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

499

202

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M	AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	7352	277
PassMark - G2D Mark	499	202
Geekbench - OpenCL	21639
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	2942

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M	AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM204	Caicos
Launch date	7 October 2014	21 December 2013
Place in performance rating	450	834
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1127 MHz
Core clock speed	1038 MHz	875 MHz
CUDA cores	1536
Floating-point performance	1,659 gflops	280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1536	160
Texture fill rate	51.84 GTexel / s	7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	18 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
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 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		168 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	160 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
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