NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Laptop, 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

0.36% slightly better overall score

2485 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

62 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

43 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

1140.23 points

210% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

48617 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

46592 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

78% significantly higher core clock speed

630 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

1140 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

27% slightly higher memory bandwidth

176 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

60 W

175% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

42% slightly higher pixel rate

54.72 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

113% significantly higher texture rate

72.96 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

4.67 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

178th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980 vs RTX A1000 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 GPU is faster than the RTX A1000 Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the RTX A1000 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the RTX A1000 Laptop.