NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2014
Mar 2016
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1038 MHz
1026 MHz
Boost Clock
1127 MHz
1190 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1653 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
105.8GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1536
768
TMUs
96
48
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
72.13 GPixel/s
38.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.2 GTexel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.462 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
108.2 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM204
GM206
GPU Variant
N16E-GX-A1
GM206-251-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
228 mm²

Board Design

TDP
Unknown
75W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
None
Suggested PSU
-
250 W

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
5.2
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
6.4

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
3,916
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,767
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