NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +4227%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce 9600M GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 9M

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

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

1536

Shading Units

32

96

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G96C

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

121 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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