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 A6000
CORE STATE
GA102
VRAM
48 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1800 MHz
TDP
300 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2020
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 A6000
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,536
10,752
+600.0%
Shaders
1,536
10,752
+600.0%
TMUs
96
336
+250.0%
ROPs
64
112
+75.0%
SM Count
—
84
Clocks
Base Clock
1038 MHz
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
1127 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
48 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
49,152
+500.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
160.4 GB/s
768.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
6 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
72.13 GPixel/s
201.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.2 GTexel/s
604.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.462 TFLOPS
38.71 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
108.2 GFLOPS (1:32)
604.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
38.71 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
84
Tensor Cores
—
336
Power
TDP
—
300 W
TDP (W)
—
300
Suggested PSU
—
700 W
Power Connectors
None
8-pin EPS
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
GPU Name
GM204
GA102
Generation
GeForce 900M
Workstation Ampere
(Ax000)
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
28,300 million
Die Size
398 mm²
628 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
13.1M / mm²
45.1M / 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
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
4,649 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
Quadro Turing
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
Workstation Ada