NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A 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 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1140MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +224%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950A

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 950A

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM107

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

5.0

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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