GeForce GTX 980MX: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 980MX sales 1 June 2016. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Maxwell 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 148 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 980MX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019) | |
| GPU code name | GM204 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 June 2016 (7 years ago) |
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 980MX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 980MX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1664 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 1050 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1178 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 5,200 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 148 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 122.5 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 3,920 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 980MX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Width | MXM Module | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 980MX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 6000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 980MX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 980MX, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 5.2 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 980MX is Radeon R9 380X.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 980MX according to our statistics.
