NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R9 200

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 200, 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
93% significantly better overall score
1289 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points
37582 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
38925 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points
34662 points
0.15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points
39866 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586
243rd 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 R9 200 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 200 in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 980 over the Radeon R9 200.

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