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
RTX A500 Mobile
CORE STATE
GA107S
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1537 MHz
TDP
30 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2022
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
RTX A500 Mobile
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,536
2,048
+33.3%
Shaders
1,536
2,048
+33.3%
TMUs
96
64
-33.3%
ROPs
64
32
-50.0%
SM Count
—
16
Clocks
Base Clock
1038 MHz
832 MHz
Boost Clock
1127 MHz
1537 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
12 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
4,096
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
160.4 GB/s
96.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
72.13 GPixel/s
49.18 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.2 GTexel/s
98.37 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.462 TFLOPS
6.296 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
108.2 GFLOPS (1:32)
98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
16
Tensor Cores
—
64
Power
TDP
—
30 W
TDP (W)
—
30
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
GPU Name
GM204
GA107S
Generation
GeForce 900M
Ampere-MW
(Ax000)
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
8,700 million
Die Size
398 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
13.1M / mm²
43.5M / 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
8.6
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
IGP
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
Quadro Turing-M
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
Ada-MW