NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce 315M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 315M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +9951%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 300M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

1664

8

TMUs

104

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

2.424 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

4.848 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

38.78 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

GM204

N11M-GE

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-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

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

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

6.4

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