NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1207MHz vs 1178MHz)
896 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (95W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980MX
3.92 TFLOPS
RTX A2000 Max Q
+57%
6.18 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2016
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 900M
Generation
Ampere-MW
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
682 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1207 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
20
1664
Shading Units
2560
104
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
75.39 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.94 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
96.56 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.180 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.180 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
95W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA107
N16E-GXX-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
