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

GRID K2

CORE STATE GK104

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 225 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

649

N/A

geekbench_opencl

23,832

10,593

geekbench_vulkan

13,964

N/A

passmark_directx_10

35

N/A

passmark_directx_11

57

N/A

passmark_directx_12

31

N/A

passmark_directx_9

125

N/A

passmark_g2d

490

N/A

passmark_g3d

7,338

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

2,816

N/A

geekbench_metal

N/A

5,557

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980M

GRID K2

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

1,536 0.0%

Shaders

1,536

1,536 0.0%

TMUs

96

128 +33.3%

ROPs

64

32 -50.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1038 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

745 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

160.4 GB/s

160.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB (per SMX)

L2 Cache

2 MB

512 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

23.84 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

95.36 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.462 TFLOPS

2.289 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

108.2 GFLOPS (1:32)

95.36 GFLOPS (1:24)

Power

TDP

—

225 W

TDP (W)

—

225

Suggested PSU

—

550 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Kepler

GPU Name

GM204

GK104

Generation

GeForce 900M

GRID (K2)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

3,540 million

Die Size

398 mm²

294 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

12.0M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.2.175

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

3.0

Shader Model

6.8

6.5 (5.1)

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

No outputs

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

5,199 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

—

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

—

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