NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +2625%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GTS

0.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

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GeForce 9700M GTS

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 9M

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

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

48

96

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.72 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

127.2 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G94

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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