NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 9% (1127MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +30%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980M +29%

2949

GeForce GTX 970M

2284

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM204

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

5.2

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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