NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile 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 2070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1440MHz vs 1140MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile +42%

6.636 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

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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

1215 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

92.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

207.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

13.27 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.636 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

207.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GM204

N18E-G2-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

Board Design

115W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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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