NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1178MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +47%

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970M

208

GeForce GTX 980MX +21%

252

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970M

54

GeForce GTX 980MX +16%

63

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.4

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