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
Tesla M40
CORE STATE
GM200
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1112 MHz
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
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
Tesla M40
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,536
3,072
+100.0%
Shaders
1,536
3,072
+100.0%
TMUs
96
192
+100.0%
ROPs
64
96
+50.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
1038 MHz
948 MHz
Boost Clock
1127 MHz
1112 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
12,288
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
160.4 GB/s
288.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
72.13 GPixel/s
106.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.2 GTexel/s
213.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.462 TFLOPS
6.832 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
108.2 GFLOPS (1:32)
213.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
—
250 W
TDP (W)
—
250
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Power Connectors
None
8-pin EPS
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GM204
GM200
Generation
GeForce 900M
Tesla Maxwell
(Mxx)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
8,000 million
Die Size
398 mm²
601 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
13.3M / 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
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
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
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
Tesla Kepler
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
Tesla Pascal