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
GPU 1
GPU 2
7357
994
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
492
468
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
23749
6925
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M AMD Radeon R7 A265
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

Essentials

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

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

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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 x8
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.5

Memory

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

Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI