NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1695MHz vs 1140MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +234%

15.62 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

4608

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

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

81.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

244.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

15.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.62 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

244.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 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

115W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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