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GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon R9 380 2G
Intro
The GeForce GTX 980M makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1038 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.
Benchmarks
These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
| GeForce GTX 980M |
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9476 points |
| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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8850 points |
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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce GTX 980M |
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100 Watts |
| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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190 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380 2G will be 43% quicker than the GeForce GTX 980M in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)
| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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182400 MB/sec |
| GeForce GTX 980M |
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128000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon R9 380 2G should be a little bit (about 9%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 980M. (explain)| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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108640 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce GTX 980M |
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99648 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
The GeForce GTX 980M will be quite a bit (approximately 114%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380 2G, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)| GeForce GTX 980M |
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66432 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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31040 Mpixels/sec |
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Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.
Price Comparison
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Specifications
| Model | GeForce GTX 980M | Radeon R9 380 2G |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | October 7 2014 | June 2015 |
| Code Name | GM204 | Antigua PRO |
| Memory | 4096 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 1038 MHz | 970 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 4000 MHz | 5700 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 100 watts | 190 watts |
| Bandwidth | 128000 MB/sec | 182400 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 99648 Mtexels/sec | 108640 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 66432 Mpixels/sec | 31040 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 1536 | 1792 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 96 | 112 |
| Render Output Units | 64 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | (Unknown) million | 5000 million |
| Bus | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 12 | DirectX 12.0 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.5 | OpenGL 4.5 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.
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