NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1734MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile +489%

8.878 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960M

1230

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile +489%

7245

GeForce GTX 960M

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GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

1556 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1734 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.0 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

138.7 GFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.878 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GP104

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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