NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon R7 A265
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and AMD Radeon R7 A265 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 8 month(s) later
- Around 43% higher core clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 725 MHz
- Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 825 MHz
- 2.6x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 19.8 GTexel / s
- 4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 384
- 2.6x better floating-point performance: 1,659 gflops vs 633.6 gflops
- 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
- Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
- 7.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7357 vs 994
- Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 492 vs 468
- 3.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 23749 vs 6925
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 7 October 2014 vs 9 January 2014 |
Core clock speed | 1038 MHz vs 725 MHz |
Boost clock speed | 1127 MHz vs 825 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 51.84 GTexel / s vs 19.8 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 1536 vs 384 |
Floating-point performance | 1,659 gflops vs 633.6 gflops |
Maximum memory size | 8 GB vs 2 GB |
Memory clock speed | 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 7357 vs 994 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 492 vs 468 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 23749 vs 6925 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 A265
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Geekbench - OpenCL |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M | AMD Radeon R7 A265 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 7357 | 994 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 492 | 468 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 23749 | 6925 |
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 | 2955 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M | AMD Radeon R7 A265 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 1.0 |
Code name | GM204 | Opal |
Launch date | 7 October 2014 | 9 January 2014 |
Place in performance rating | 457 | 458 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1127 MHz | 825 MHz |
Core clock speed | 1038 MHz | 725 MHz |
CUDA cores | 1536 | |
Floating-point performance | 1,659 gflops | 633.6 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
Pipelines | 1536 | 384 |
Texture fill rate | 51.84 GTexel / s | 19.8 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 100 Watt | |
Transistor count | 5,200 million | 1,040 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | 1 | |
G-SYNC support | ||
HDMI | ||
VGA аnalog display support | 1 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
Laptop size | large | |
SLI options | 1 | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12.0 (11_1) |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | 2 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 160 GB / s | 28.8 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 128 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 2500 MHz | 1800 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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GameStream | ||
GameWorks | ||
GeForce Experience | ||
GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
GPU Boost | ||
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
Optimus | ||
SLI |