GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile vs GTX 980M SLI

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking253not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency9.12no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameno dataTU106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 October 2014 (10 years ago)9 July 2019 (6 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 cores30722176
Core clock speed1038 MHz1470 MHz
Boost clock speed1127 MHz1530 MHz
Number of transistors2x 5200 Million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rateno data208.1
Floating-point processing powerno data6.659 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data136
Tensor Coresno data272
Ray Tracing Coresno data34
L1 Cacheno data2.1 MB
L2 Cacheno data4 MB

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 dataPCIe 3.0 x16
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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width2x 256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA+7.5
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2014 9 July 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 175 Watt

RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile has an age advantage of 4 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 14.3% lower power consumption.

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