NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA T500 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX NVIDIA T500 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 2GB VRAM T500 Mobile 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 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA T500 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1695MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (18W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +29%

3.92 TFLOPS

T500 Mobile

3.037 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 980MX +38%

252

T500 Mobile

182

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

T500 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Dec 2020

GeForce 900M

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

896

104

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

94.92 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.075 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.037 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

94.92 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU117

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

18W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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