GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1127 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
P106-090
CORE STATE
GP106
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1531 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 980M
P106-090
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,536
768
-50.0%
Shaders
1,536
768
-50.0%
TMUs
96
48
-50.0%
ROPs
64
48
-25.0%
SM Count
—
6
Clocks
Base Clock
1038 MHz
1354 MHz
Boost Clock
1127 MHz
1531 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
2002 MHz
8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
3 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
3,072
-62.5%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
160.4 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
72.13 GPixel/s
73.49 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.2 GTexel/s
73.49 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.462 TFLOPS
2.352 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
108.2 GFLOPS (1:32)
73.49 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
36.74 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
—
75 W
TDP (W)
—
75
Suggested PSU
—
250 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
GPU Name
GM204
GP106
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mining GPUs
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
4,400 million
Die Size
398 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
22.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.2
6.1
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
250 mm
9.8 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x1
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
—
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
—