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    GeForce GTX 980M vs GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

    GeForce GTX 980M
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 980M
    GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 21 Sep 2015
    GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      112%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 980 Mobile

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 12% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 980MGeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GX-A1)vsGM204 ()
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs398 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs5,200 million
    Shaders1536vs2048
    Compute Units12vs16
    Core clock1038 MHzvs1064 MHz
    ROPs64vs64
    TMUs96vs128

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 980MGeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs1753 MHz
    7012 MHz effective
    Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 980MGeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    TDP0 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date7 Oct 2014vs21 Sep 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      66.40 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      68.10 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      99.60 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      136.20 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      160.40 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      224.40 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      3189.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      4358.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 980M
      12270
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      13830

    Points (higher is better)

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