NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +263%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce GTX 580M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

-

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

1536

Shading Units

384

96

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.920 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF114

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX2-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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