GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs Radeon R9 380

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 21 Sep 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Radeon R9 380
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 380

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    112%
  • Radeon R9 380
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Around 12% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 380

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

The GeForce GTX 980 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 980 MobileRadeon R9 380
GPU NameGM204 ()vsAntigua (Antigua PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders2048vs1792
Compute Units16vs28
Core clock1064 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs128vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 980 MobileRadeon R9 380
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 980 MobileRadeon R9 380
TDP0 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date21 Sep 2015vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    68.10 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    136.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    108.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    224.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    4358.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380
    3476.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    13830
  • Radeon R9 380
    12280

Points (higher is better)