Go 6100 vs GTX 980M SLI

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking202not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money18.57no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2018)no data
GPU code nameno dataC51MV
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 October 2014 (9 years old)1 February 2006 (18 years old)
Current price$499 $322
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3072no data
Core clock speed1038 MHz1 MHz
Boost clock speed1127 MHz425 MHz
Number of transistors2x 5200 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattno data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 980M SLI and GeForce Go 6100 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
SLI options+no data

Memory

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GBno data
Memory bus width2x 256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed5000 MHzno data
Shared memory-+

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+no data

API support

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

DirectX12_1shared Memory
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CUDA+no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 7 October 2014 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 28 nm 110 nm

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M SLI
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