NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon HD 7990

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1650 points
1706 points
3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS
40 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS
34 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
14 FPS

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz
9% slightly higher core clock speed
950 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz
12% slightly higher boost clock speed
1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
33% slightly more memory
3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.4 GB/s
288 GB/s
79% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W
274% significantly lower TDP
375 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s
125% significantly higher pixel rate
32 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s
128 Gigatexels/s
18% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS
4.10 TFLOPS
18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536
2048
33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

96
128
33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

233rd of 592
227th of 592

Family

The product line

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Radeon HD 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.4

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