NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1242MHz vs 1127MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +262%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX

0.954 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980M +404%

2949

GeForce 940MX

584

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce 940MX

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1004 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1242 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

384

96

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.936 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.81 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

953.9 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

29.81 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM108

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N16S-GTR-S

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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