NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA GeForce 305M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 305M

0.037 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +9256%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce 305M

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 300M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1038 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

11.20GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

1536

8

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

2.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

4.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

36.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

GM204

N11M-LP1

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

14W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.2

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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