Quadro P3000 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 980M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	286	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	13.21	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GM204	N17E-Q1 Max-Q
Market segment	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Release date	7 October 2014 (10 years ago)	1 September 2017 (7 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 cores	1536	1280
Core clock speed	1038 MHz	1075 MHz
Boost clock speed	1127 MHz	1240 MHz
Number of transistors	5,200 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	unknown	60 Watt
Texture fill rate	51.84	no data
Floating-point processing power	1.659 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	no data
TMUs	96	no data

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 size	large	large
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data
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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	-

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 Connectors	No outputs	no data
VGA аnalog display support	+	no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	+	no data
HDMI	+	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

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

GameStream	+	-
GeForce ShadowPlay	+	-
GPU Boost	2.0	no data
GameWorks	+	-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder	+	-
Optimus	+	+
BatteryBoost	+	-
Ansel	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12_1
Shader Model	6.4	no data
OpenGL	4.5	no data
OpenCL	1.1	no data
Vulkan	1.1.126	-
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 October 2014	1 September 2017
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	16 nm

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