NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1185MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +16%

4.55 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 980MX

314

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +352%

1420

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 980MX

64

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +128%

146

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

975 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

1664

Shading Units

1920

104

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.88 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.101 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.550 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU106

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N18E-G1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

445 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

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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