NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX NVIDIA GeForce 305M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 305M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +10494%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 305M

0.037 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce 305M

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

16

104

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.100 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

36.80 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GT218

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N11M-LP1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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