NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 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 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 743 MHz
• 4.4x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 11.89 GTexel / s
• 4.8x more pipelines: 1536 vs 320
• 3.5x better floating-point performance: 1,659 gflops vs 475.5 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
• 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 215 Watt
• 16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 51% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1656 MHz
• 11.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7350 vs 660
• Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 498 vs 397

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7350 660
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	498 397

Compare specifications (specs)