UHD Graphics vs GeForce GTX 980MX

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated604
Place by popularitynot in top-1007
Power efficiencyno data38.25
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameGM204Jasper Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 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 cores1664256
Core clock speed1050 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speed1178 MHz750 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm+
Power consumption (TDP)148 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate122.512.00
Floating-point processing power3.92 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs648
TMUs10416

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16Ring Bus
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/sno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 11 January 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 148 Watt 10 Watt

UHD Graphics has an age advantage of 4 years, a 180% more advanced lithography process, and 1380% lower power consumption.

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