NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +1941%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce GTS 160M

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

1664

Shading Units

64

104

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G94

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GS1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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