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

Tesla K10

CORE STATE GK104

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 225 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

649

N/A

geekbench_opencl

23,832

14,029

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

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980M

Tesla K10

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

Tesla Kepler (Kxx)

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

—

272 mm 10.7 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

No outputs

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

5,099 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

Tesla Fermi

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

Tesla Maxwell

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