ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking108not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money76.61no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2018)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLIM71
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date22 September 2015 (8 years old)1 March 2007 (17 years old)
Current price$301 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096no data
Core clock speed1126 MHz479 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHzno data
Number of transistors10400 Million107 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data1.916

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Mobility Radeon X2300 HD compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
SLI options+no data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit32 Bit
Memory clock speed3500 MHz756 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data3.024 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support+no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_19.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkanno dataN/A
CUDA+no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 22 September 2015 1 March 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Mobility Radeon X2300 HD. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while Mobility Radeon X2300 HD is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
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