AMD Radeon HD 8610G
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
AMD Radeon HD 8610G
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8610G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

914
Place in performance rating
107
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Value for money (0-100)
56.16
Terascale 3
Architecture
Maxwell
Richland
Code name
GM204
Laptop
Type
Laptop
23 May 2013 (8 years ago)
Release date
22 September 2014 (7 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$395.82
$338
Price now
$251 (0.6x MSRP)
0.03
Value for money
46.98
Richland
GPU code name
N16E-GXX
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 8610G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
2048
533 MHz
Core clock speed
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626 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
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Transistor count
5,200 million
32 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
100-200 Watt
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Texture fill rate
144 billion/sec
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Floating-point performance
4,358 gflops
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CUDA cores
2048
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
626 MHz
Boost clock speed
1216 MHz
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Number of transistors
5,200 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
100-200 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 8610G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile.

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Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
medium sized
Laptop size
large
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
PCI Express 3.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 8610G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
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Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8610G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
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G-SYNC support
+
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Multi monitor support
4 displays
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HDCP
+
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Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
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Audio input for HDMI
Internal
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HDMI
+
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VGA аnalog display support
+
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DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 8610G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
+
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GPU Boost
2.0
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CUDA
+
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GeForce Experience
+
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Surround
+
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Adaptive Vertical Sync
+
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Optimus
+
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GameStream
+
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GeForce ShadowPlay
+
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GameWorks
+
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BatteryBoost
+
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H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 8610G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
DirectX
12 (12_1)
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OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
1.1.126
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Shader Model
6.4
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OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 8610G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 8610G or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8610G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8610G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8610G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8610G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8610G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8610G

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

48.74% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($251 (0.6x MSRP) vs $338)

More pipelines (2048 vs 384)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 32 nm)

G-SYNC support

So, AMD Radeon HD 8610G or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile .

AMD Radeon HD 8610G versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 8610G
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile