NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1230MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q +227%

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1230 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

64

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

177.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

11.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

177.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

GM204

GN21-X6

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

190 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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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