NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1127MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +30%

3.462 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970M

2285

GeForce GTX 980M +28%

2945

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

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

72.13 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 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-GX-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)

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