NVIDIA P106-100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA P106-100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) 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 P106-100

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA P106-100

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 41% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1216 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
1144x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 June 2017 vs 21 September 2015
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz vs 1216 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,375 gflops vs 4,358 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4062 vs 4053

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1280

Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1280

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA P106-100
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

4062

4053

Name	NVIDIA P106-100	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark	6357
PassMark - G2D Mark	255
Geekbench - OpenCL	34722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	163.993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1705.321
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	9.266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	76.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	448.036
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12824
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1680
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12824
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1680
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4062	4053

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA P106-100	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GP106	GM204
Launch date	19 June 2017	21 September 2015
Place in performance rating	425	562
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$395.82
Price now		$605.06
Value for money (0-100)		20.91
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz	1216 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,375 gflops	4,358 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1280	2048
Texture fill rate	136.7 GTexel / s	144 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	100-200 Watt
Transistor count	4,400 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		2048
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
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
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	250 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
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		1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.2 GB / s	224 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz	7.0 GB/s
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