NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350 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 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 14.4x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 3.6 GTexel / s
  • 19.2x more pipelines: 1536 vs 80
  • 23x better floating-point performance: 1,659 gflops vs 72 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
  • 2.1x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 49.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7351 vs 148
  • Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 491 vs 369
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 October 2014 vs 9 January 2009
Core clock speed 1038 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s vs 3.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 80
Floating-point performance 1,659 gflops vs 72 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 7351 vs 148
PassMark - G2D Mark 491 vs 369

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7351
148
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
491
369
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350
PassMark - G3D Mark 7351 148
PassMark - G2D Mark 491 369
Geekbench - OpenCL 23826
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 649

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GM204 M92
Launch date 7 October 2014 9 January 2009
Place in performance rating 462 459
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1127 MHz
Core clock speed 1038 MHz 450 MHz
CUDA cores 1536
Floating-point performance 1,659 gflops 72 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 1536 80
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s 3.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 242 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 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 160 GB / s 9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay