NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View 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 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 13x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
  • 19.2x more pipelines: 1536 vs 80
  • 20.7x better floating-point performance: 1,659 gflops vs 80 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 43.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7357 vs 170
  • Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 492 vs 352
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 October 2014 vs 1 April 2010
Core clock speed 1038 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 80
Floating-point performance 1,659 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 7357 vs 170
PassMark - G2D Mark 492 vs 352

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

  • 5.9x lower typical power consumption: 17 Watt vs 100 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 17 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7357
170
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
492
352
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View
PassMark - G3D Mark 7357 170
PassMark - G2D Mark 492 352
Geekbench - OpenCL 23724
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 ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name GM204 Cedar
Launch date 7 October 2014 1 April 2010
Place in performance rating 457 454
Type Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1127 MHz
Core clock speed 1038 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 1536
Floating-point performance 1,659 gflops 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1536 80
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s 4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 17 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 292 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x 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 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None None
Length 170 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 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 160 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 1000 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