GeForce GTX 980MX Overview
Summary
Data interpolated by architecture, based on benchmarks charts.
The GeForce GTX 980MX is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 1 Jun 2016. The graphics card houses the GM204 die, based on the Nvidia_Maxwell_2_0 architecture which packs 5,200 million transistors on a 28 nm, 398 mm2 die.
GeForce GTX 980MX pros and cons |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Compared to similar performing cards
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| GeForce GTX 980MX | GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile | Radeon R9 M470X | Radeon R9 M385X | Radeon HD 7970M |
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| Shader units | 1664 | 2560 | 896 | 896 | 1280 |
| ROPs | 56 | 64 | 16 | 16 | 32 |
| Graphics processor | GM204 | GP104 | Strato | Strato | Wimbledon |
| Process size | 28 nm | 16 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Memory | 8192 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective) | 8192 Mb GDDR5X (1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective) | 4096 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective) | 4096 Mb GDDR5 (1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective) |
| Memory bus width | 256 bit | 256 bit | 128 bit | 128 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.00 Gb/s | 320.00 Gb/s | 96.00 Gb/s | 76.80 Gb/s | 153.60 Gb/s |
| Release date | 1 Jun 2016 | 15 Aug 2016 | 15 May 2016 | 5 May 2015 | 24 Apr 2012 |