GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA 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

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 5050

CORE STATE GB207

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2572 MHz

TDP 130 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

649

N/A

geekbench_opencl

23,832

93,892

geekbench_vulkan

13,964

89,381

passmark_directx_10

35

103

passmark_directx_11

57

150

passmark_directx_12

31

66

passmark_directx_9

125

186

passmark_g2d

490

1,113

passmark_g3d

7,338

17,326

passmark_gpu_compute

2,816

9,184

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980M

RTX 5050

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

2,560 +66.7%

Shaders

1,536

2,560 +66.7%

TMUs

96

80 -16.7%

ROPs

64

32 -50.0%

SM Count

—

20

Clocks

Base Clock

1038 MHz

2317 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

2572 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

2500 MHz 20 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

8,192 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

160.4 GB/s

320.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

24 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

82.30 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

205.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.462 TFLOPS

13.17 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

108.2 GFLOPS (1:32)

205.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

13.17 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

20

Tensor Cores

—

80

Power

TDP

—

130 W

TDP (W)

—

130

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GB207

Generation

GeForce 900M

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

16,900 million

Die Size

398 mm²

149 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

113.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

12.0

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 5.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

—

249 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

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