NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1140MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
+520%
4.669 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 740M
0.753 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2015
Release Date
Jun 2013
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 700M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1064 MHz
Base Clock
-
1140 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
384
128
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
72.96 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
145.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.36 GTexel/s
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-
-
4.669 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
145.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
33W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GK208
N16E-GXX-A1
GPU Variant
GT 740M
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
87 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
5.2
CUDA
3.5
6.7 (6.4)
Shader Model
5.1
