NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon 780M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon 780M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points
2976 points
19% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

52 FPS
66 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
46 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS
57 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points
758% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
510 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points
34% slightly higher Blender score
272.52 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
30282 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points
43054 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586
155th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon 780M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon 780M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon 780M over the GeForce GTX 980.

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