AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB, 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

1280 points

1650 points

28% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

32 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

25 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

21 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2801 points

2939 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29877 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33763 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26093 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28196 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24516 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33667 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23881 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

970 MHz

1038 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

970 MHz

1127 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

4 GB/s

160.4 GB/s

3909% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

190 W

100 W

89% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.04 Gigapixels/s

72.13 Gigapixels/s

132% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.6 Gigatexels/s

0.37% slightly higher texture rate

108.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.48 TFLOPS

0.40% slightly better floating point performance

3.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

16% slightly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

16% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 586

230th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2014 October

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

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 380 vs GeForce GTX 980M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980M GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 380 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980M has a slightly 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 980M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the Radeon R9 380 at 190 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 980M is better than the Radeon R9 380.