NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v 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 530v

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 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 55 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1200 MHz
42x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7356 vs 175
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 491 vs 353

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 October 2014 vs 5 May 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 55 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	7356 vs 175
PassMark - G2D Mark	491 vs 353

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

10x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7356

175

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

491

353

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v
PassMark - G3D Mark	7356	175
PassMark - G2D Mark	491	353
Geekbench - OpenCL	23790
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	3190

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GM204	M92
Launch date	7 October 2014	5 May 2010
Place in performance rating	452	453
Type	Laptop	Laptop
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	55 nm
Pipelines	1536	80
Texture fill rate	51.84 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	10 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)	MXM-A (3.0)
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, DDR3, DDR2
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