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Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 980 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 Nano vs GeForce GTX 980

Radeon R9 Nano
8741
GeForce GTX 980
11457

Radeon R9 Nano

GeForce GTX 980


Architecture
GCN 1.2 (2015−2016)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Fiji
GM204

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
September 2015
September 2014

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
-
500 Watt

Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pins

SLI options
-
+

Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-

Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1216 MHz

Compute units
64
-

Core clock speed
-
1064 MHz

CUDA cores
-
2048

Floating-point performance
8,192 gflops
4,981 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
8,900 million
5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
2048

Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
165 Watt

Texture fill rate
256.0
144 billion/sec

Memory type
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
4096 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
500 MHz
7.0 GB/s

Memory bandwidth
512 GB/s
224 GB/s

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
+
-

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Multi monitor support
-
4 displays

Eyefinity
+
-

Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-

VGA аnalog display support
-
+

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+

HDMI
+
+

HDCP
-
+

Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536

DisplayPort support
+
-

G-SYNC support
-
+

Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal

DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
+
-

OpenCL
2.0
1.2

OpenGL
4.5
4.5

Shader Model
6.3
6.4

Vulkan
+
1.1.126

AppAcceleration
+
-

BatteryBoost
-
+

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

FRTC
1
-

GameStream
-
+

GameWorks
-
+

GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+

GPU Boost
-
2.0

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

Optimus
-
+

PowerTune
+
-

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
+
-

VCE
+
-

ZeroCore
+
-