GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mobile vs GTX 980 SLI Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking111not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.23no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLIAD107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date22 September 2015 (9 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores40963072
Core clock speed1126 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1228 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors10400 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data162.7
Floating-point processing powerno data10.41 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data96

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 4.0 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 width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed3500 MHz16 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 GB/s
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 dataPortable Device Dependent
G-SYNC support+-

API compatibility

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+8.9

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm

RTX 4060 Ti Mobile has a 600% more advanced lithography process.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
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