GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

CORE STATE GF104

VRAM 768 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 160 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1127 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

7,858

23,832

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

649

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

13,964

passmark_directx_10

N/A

35

passmark_directx_11

N/A

57

passmark_directx_12

N/A

31

passmark_directx_9

N/A

125

passmark_g2d

N/A

490

passmark_g3d

N/A

7,338

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,816

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 460

GTX 980M

Core Specs

Shading Units

336

1,536 +357.1%

Shaders

336

1,536 +357.1%

TMUs

56

96 +71.4%

ROPs

24

64 +166.7%

SM Count

7

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1127 MHz

GPU Clock

675 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1350 MHz

—

Memory Clock

900 MHz 3.6 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

768 MB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

768

8,192 +966.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

86.40 GB/s

160.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

384 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

72.13 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

907.2 GFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.60 GFLOPS (1:12)

108.2 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

160 W

—

TDP (W)

160

—

Suggested PSU

450 W

—

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GF104

GM204

Generation

GeForce 400

GeForce 900M

Process Size

40 nm

28 nm

Transistors

1,950 million

5,200 million

Die Size

332 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

5.9M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

CUDA

2.1

5.2

Shader Model

5.1

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

MXM Module

Length

210 mm 8.3 inches

—

Outputs

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 200

GeForce 800M

Successor

GeForce 500

GeForce 10 Mobile

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