Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Mar 2014 | Jun 2016 |
| Generation | GeForce 800M | GeForce 900M |
| Type | Mobile | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 941 MHz | 1050 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 967 MHz | 1178 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 192bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 120.0GB/s | 192.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 1344 | 1664 |
| TMUs | 112 | 104 |
| ROPs | 24 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per SMX) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 384 KB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 27.08 GPixel/s | 75.39 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 108.3 GTexel/s | 122.5 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.599 TFLOPS | 3.920 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 108.3 GFLOPS | 122.5 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GK104 | GM204 |
| GPU Variant | N15E-GT-A2 | N16E-GXX-A1 |
| Architecture | Kepler | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 3.54 billion | 5.2 billion |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 100W | 148W |
| Outputs | No outputs | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | None | None |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 3.0 | 5.2 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.4 |