NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1140MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +236%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 900A

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

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

72.96 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

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1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GM204

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-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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