GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs Radeon R9 380X

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 21 Sep 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Radeon R9 380X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2015
Radeon R9 380X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    103%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 380X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 980 MobileRadeon R9 380X
GPU NameGM204 ()vsAntigua (Antigua XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders2048vs2048
Compute Units16vs32
Core clock1064 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs128vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 980 MobileRadeon R9 380X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1425 MHz
5700 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 980 MobileRadeon R9 380X
TDP0 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date21 Sep 2015vs19 Nov 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

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

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

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

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    4358.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380X
    3973.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    13830
  • Radeon R9 380X
    13410

Points (higher is better)