NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 980 Mobile +75%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

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4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM204

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

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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