NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1140MHz vs 1038MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970M
2.657 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
+75%
4.669 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2014
Release Date
Sep 2015
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
924 MHz
Base Clock
1064 MHz
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
1140 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
120.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1280
Shading Units
2048
80
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
49.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
72.96 GPixel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
145.9 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.657 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.669 TFLOPS
83.04 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
145.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GM204
N16E-GT-A2
GPU Variant
N16E-GXX-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
398 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 (6.4)
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
