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    GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon R9 380X

    GeForce GTX 980M
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 980M
    Radeon R9 380X
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 19 Nov 2015
    Radeon R9 380X

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      100%
    • Radeon R9 380X
      109%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980M

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 9% higher average synthetic performance.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    Radeon R9 380X

    HWBench recommends Radeon R9 380X

    The Radeon R9 380X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 980MRadeon R9 380X
    GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GX-A1)vsAntigua (Antigua XT)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs366 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs5,000 million
    Shaders1536vs2048
    Compute Units12vs32
    Core clock1038 MHzvs970 MHz
    ROPs64vs32
    TMUs96vs128

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 980MRadeon R9 380X
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs1425 MHz
    5700 MHz effective
    Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 980MRadeon R9 380X
    TDP0 wattsvs190 watts
    Release Date7 Oct 2014vs19 Nov 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      66.40 GP/s
    • Radeon R9 380X
      31.04 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      99.60 GT/s
    • Radeon R9 380X
      124.20 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      160.40 GB/s
    • Radeon R9 380X
      182.40 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      3189.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R9 380X
      3973.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      12270
    • Radeon R9 380X
      13410

    Points (higher is better)

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