NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 45x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
Launch date 21 September 2015 vs 14 November 2004
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 128 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

  • 114.3x more memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Memory clock speed 800 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4053
PassMark - G3D Mark 89
PassMark - G2D Mark 288

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Curie
Code name GM204 NV43 A2
Launch date 21 September 2015 14 November 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $395.82
Place in performance rating 573 570
Price now $605.06
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 20.91

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1216 MHz
CUDA cores 2048
Floating-point performance 4,358 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 2048
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec 3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100-200 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 146 million
Core clock speed 400 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI, 1x VGA
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 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
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