NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +11837%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

-

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

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

1.800 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G86

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

4.0

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