NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1350MHz vs 1140MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

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

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 Max Q +255%

16.59 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

RTX A5000 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

720 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

2048

Shading Units

6144

128

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

129.6 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.59 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.59 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.2 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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