NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1350MHz vs 1127MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 Max Q +379%

16.59 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

RTX A5000 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

720 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

1536

Shading Units

6144

96

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

129.6 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.59 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.59 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.2 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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