GeForce GTX 980M vs GeForce GTX 670MX
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980M Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock1127MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980M
+200%
3462
GeForce GTX 670MX
1154
Graphics Card
Oct 2014
Release Date
Oct 2012
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1038 MHz
Base Clock
-
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
67.20GB/s
Render Config
1536
Shading Units
960
96
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
24
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
72.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.02 GPixel/s
108.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.08 GTexel/s
3.462 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1154 GFLOPS
108.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
48.08 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
75W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GK104
N16E-GX-A1
GPU Variant
N13E-GR-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
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
