NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M 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 965M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1150MHz vs 1127MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 965M

2.355 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +47%

3.462 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 965M

1819

GeForce GTX 980M +61%

2945

GeForce GTX 965M

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

935 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1150 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

73.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

-

2.355 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

73.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

GM204

N16E-GR-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

228 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

5.2

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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