NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Unknown
Generation
GeForce 900M
Northern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1038 MHz
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Boost Clock
1127 MHz
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Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
1536
TMUs
96
96
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
72.13 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.2 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.462 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
108.2 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Antilles
GPU Variant
N16E-GX-A1
Antilles XT(215-0807027)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
375W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
3x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
750 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
5.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,916
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,767
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.