NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 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 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1468MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +117%

7.516 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1536

160

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM204

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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