NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1140MHz vs 1095MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +38%

6.447 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

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

735 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1095 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

2048

Shading Units

2944

128

TMUs

184

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

70.08 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.89 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.447 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU104

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N18E-G3-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

545 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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