NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1230MHz vs 1140MHz)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q +142%

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1230 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

2048

Shading Units

4608

128

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

11.34 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

177.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD106

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

GN21-X6

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

190 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

8.9

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.7

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