NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1200MHz vs 1140MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (259.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +1%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

4.608 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2019

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

960 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1353 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

259.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

2048

Shading Units

1920

128

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

144.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.216 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.608 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

115W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU106B

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.6

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