NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce 930A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce 930A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 2GB VRAM GeForce 930A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1178MHz vs 941MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 930A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +442%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 930A

0.723 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce 930A

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

928 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

941 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

1664

Shading Units

384

104

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.528 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.58 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

722.7 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.58 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM108

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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