NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce 940M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1127MHz vs 1098MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +208%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce 940M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1020 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1098 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

512

96

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.57 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.14 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1124 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.14 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM107

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N16S-GT1-KB-B

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

5.0

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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