NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 1127 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 122.5 GTexel / s vs 51.84 GTexel / s
Around 8% higher pipelines: 1664 vs 1536
2.4x better floating-point performance: 3,920 gflops vs 1,659 gflops
2.4x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 2500 MHz

Launch date	1 June 2016 vs 7 October 2014
Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz vs 1127 MHz
Texture fill rate	122.5 GTexel / s vs 51.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1664 vs 1536
Floating-point performance	3,920 gflops vs 1,659 gflops
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 2500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Around 48% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 148 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 148 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
PassMark - G3D Mark		7351
PassMark - G2D Mark		491
Geekbench - OpenCL		23826
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		92.634
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1146.534
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		18.431
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		308.42
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		649

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GM204	GM204
Launch date	1 June 2016	7 October 2014
Place in performance rating	not rated	462
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz	1127 MHz
Core clock speed	1050 MHz	1038 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,920 gflops	1,659 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1664	1536
Texture fill rate	122.5 GTexel / s	51.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	148 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		1536
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB / s	160 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	2500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI