NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A 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 5% (1178MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +172%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950A

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce GTX 950A

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

-

1664

Shading Units

640

104

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM107

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

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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