NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce 315M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +8776%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce 315M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

-

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

16

96

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.78 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GT218

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N11M-GE

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

Unknown

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

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

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

4.1

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