NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 880M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1127MHz vs 993MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +13%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 880M

3.05 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

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GeForce GTX 880M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

954 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

993 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1536

96

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.78 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

127.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.050 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

127.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK104

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N15E-GX-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

122W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

3.0

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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