
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
-
-