NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 8GB VRAM RTX A4000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1395MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

RTX A4000 Max Q +312%

14.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

RTX A4000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 900M

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

1536

Shading Units

5120

96

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.6 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

223.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.28 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.28 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

223.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA104

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.7

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