GeForce GTX 980 and Radeon 9600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon 9600
GeForce GTX 980
11458
Radeon 9600
36
GeForce GTX 980
Radeon 9600
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
GM204
RV350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
October 2003
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1216 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1064 MHz
324 MHz
CUDA cores
2048
-
Floating-point performance
4,981 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
-
Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
144 billion/sec
1.296
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
378 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
6.048 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
9.0 (9_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
2.0
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-