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

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NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1395MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A4000 Max Q +264%

14.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

RTX A4000 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jun 2016

Quadro Ampere-M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1395 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

352.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

1664

160

TMUs

104

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

75.39 GPixel/s

223.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

14.28 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.28 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

223.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-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

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

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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