NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R7 M445

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 M445, 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

1317% significantly better overall score

176 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

465% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5920 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

545% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5358 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

780 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

920 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

601% significantly higher memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

957% significantly higher pixel rate

7.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

745% significantly higher texture rate

18.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

540% significantly more shading units

320

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

540% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

449th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R7 M445 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 M445 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 980 over the Radeon R7 M445.