NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (2000MHz vs 1140MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile +821%

43.01 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 50 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

2048

336

TMUs

128

ROPs

64

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

256.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

672.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

43.01 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

43.01 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

377 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

10.1

CUDA

5.2

6.8

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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