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GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison


GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

Radeon R5 230


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name
N16E-GXX SLI
Caicos

Market segment
Laptop
Desktop

Release date
September 2015
April 2014

Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4

Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
-
N/A

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1228 MHz
-

Core clock speed
1126 MHz
-

Floating-point performance
-
200.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
10400 Million
370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
160

Power consumption (TDP)
330 Watt
19 Watt

Texture fill rate
-
5.000

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3

Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit

Memory clock speed
3500 MHz
-

Memory bandwidth
-
10.67 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Eyefinity
-
1

HDMI
-
+

DisplayPort support
-
-

G-SYNC support
+
-

DirectX
12_1
DirectX® 11

CUDA
+
-

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
-
1.2

OpenGL
-
4.4

Shader Model
-
5.0

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
-
1

DDMA audio
-
-

Enduro
-
-

HD3D
-
-

​PowerPlay
-
+

PowerTune
-
-

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
-
-