NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 1180 MHz
Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 100-200 Watt vs 225 Watt

Boost clock speed	1216 MHz vs 1180 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt vs 225 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q

Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 151.0 GTexel / s vs 144 billion / sec
Around 11% better floating-point performance: 4,833 gflops vs 4,358 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
716x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Texture fill rate	151.0 GTexel / s vs 144 billion / sec
Floating-point performance	4,833 gflops vs 4,358 gflops
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053
PassMark - G3D Mark		3884
PassMark - G2D Mark		618
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8909
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3709
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3709
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359
Geekbench - OpenCL		27798

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GM204	GM204
Launch date	21 September 2015	30 August 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$395.82
Place in performance rating	304	361
Price now	$605.06
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	20.91
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz	1180 MHz
CUDA cores	2048
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops	4,833 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	2048
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	151.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	5,200 million
Core clock speed		930 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	1
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	160.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
BatteryBoost
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Surround