NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1650MHz vs 1140MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +84%

4.669 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2.534 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 900M

Generation

HD Graphics-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2133 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

68.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.60 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.069 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.534 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

DG1

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.1

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

28 nm

Process Size

10 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

95 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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