NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX NVIDIA RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 16GB VRAM RTX 5000 Max Q Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1680MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

8064 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Max Q Ada Generation +733%

32.69 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

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RTX 5000 Max Q Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

76

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

9728

104

TMUs

304

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

188.2 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

510.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

32.69 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.69 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

510.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD103

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

120W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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