NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M 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 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1127MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 860M

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +149%

3.462 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 860M

1149

GeForce GTX 980M +156%

2945

GeForce GTX 860M

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

-

640

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

-

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GM204

N15P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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