GeForce GTX 980M vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce GTX 980M
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 980M
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 980M
    263%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 163% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 980M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980M

The GeForce GTX 980M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 980MGeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GX-A1)vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders1536vs384
Compute Units12vs8
Core clock1038 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs96vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 980MGeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 980MGeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP0 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2014vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 980M
    66.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 980M
    99.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 980M
    160.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 980M
    3189.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 980M
    12270
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660

Points (higher is better)