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    GeForce GTX 980M vs GeForce GTX 970M

    GeForce GTX 980M
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 980M
    GeForce GTX 970M
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 970M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      124%
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980M

    Around 24% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 970M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    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 970M
    GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GX-A1)vsGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs398 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs5,200 million
    Shaders1536vs1280
    Compute Units12vs10
    Core clock1038 MHzvs1038 MHz
    ROPs64vs48
    TMUs96vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 980MGeForce GTX 970M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size8192 Mbvs6144 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 980MGeForce GTX 970M
    TDP0 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date7 Oct 2014vs7 Oct 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      66.40 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      49.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      99.60 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      83.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      160.40 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      120.30 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      3189.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      2657.30 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      12270
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      9860

    Points (higher is better)

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