NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 8GB VRAM RTX A4000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1395MHz vs 1140MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

RTX A4000 Max Q +205%

14.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

RTX A4000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 900M

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

2048

Shading Units

5120

128

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.6 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

223.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.28 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.28 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

223.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA104

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.7

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