NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1127MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +69%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

1344

96

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK104

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.0

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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