NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce 310M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 310M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1127MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980M
+6965%
3.462 TFLOPS
GeForce 310M
0.049 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2014
Release Date
Jan 2010
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 300M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1038 MHz
Base Clock
-
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
1536
Shading Units
16
96
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
72.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.424 GPixel/s
108.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.848 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.462 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.96 GFLOPS
108.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
14W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GT218
N16E-GX-A1
GPU Variant
N11M-GE1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.2
6.7 (6.4)
Shader Model
4.1
