NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +1342%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 200M

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

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GT215

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

28W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.2

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

4.1

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