NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A4000 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 RTX A4000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1395MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A4000 Max Q +312%

14.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

RTX A4000 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Oct 2014

Quadro Ampere-M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1395 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

352.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

1536

160

TMUs

96

80

ROPs

64

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

111.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

223.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

14.28 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.28 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

223.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM204

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GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

80W

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

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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