NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1185MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +31%

4.55 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980M

2945

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +89%

5584

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

975 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

1536

Shading Units

1920

96

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.88 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.101 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.550 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

65W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU106

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N18E-G1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.6

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