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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1230MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q +189%

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1230 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

4608

Shading Units

1664

144

TMUs

104

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

75.39 GPixel/s

177.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

11.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

177.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

GM204

GN21-X6

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-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

Board Design

35W

TDP

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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