NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1560MHz vs 1140MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh +28%

5.99 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

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GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1005 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

2048

120

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

64

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

74.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

187.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

11.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.990 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

187.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU106B

GPU Name

GM204

N18E-G1-KD-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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