NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165 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

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 73% higher core clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 600 MHz
2.7x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
4.8x more pipelines: 1536 vs 320
4.3x better floating-point performance: 1,659 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
25.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7351 vs 284
Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 491 vs 362

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 October 2014 vs 7 January 2010
Core clock speed	1038 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	51.84 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 320
Floating-point performance	1,659 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	7351 vs 284
PassMark - G2D Mark	491 vs 362

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165

2.9x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7351

284

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

491

362

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165
PassMark - G3D Mark	7351	284
PassMark - G2D Mark	491	362
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 5165
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GM204	M96
Launch date	7 October 2014	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	462	465
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1127 MHz
Core clock speed	1038 MHz	600 MHz
CUDA cores	1536
Floating-point performance	1,659 gflops	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1536	320
Texture fill rate	51.84 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	514 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	medium sized
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	1 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	(G)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