NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1127MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +149%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce GTX 960A

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

640

96

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM107

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

5.0

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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