GeForce4 MX 440-SE vs GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking114not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.16no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLINV17 A3
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date22 September 2015 (9 years ago)6 February 2002 (22 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096no data
Core clock speed1126 MHz250 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHzno data
Number of transistors10400 Million29 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data1.000
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataAGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB64 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed3500 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data5.312 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x VGA, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_18.0
OpenGLno data1.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 September 2015 6 February 2002
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

GTX 980 SLI Mobile has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and GeForce4 MX 440-SE. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce4 MX 440-SE is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
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