GeForce GTX 980MX: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 980MX sales 1 June 2016. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Maxwell 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 148 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 980MX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGM204
Market segmentLaptop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores1664of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1050 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed1178 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors5,200 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)148 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate122.5of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power3.92 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs64of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs104of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1500 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 980MX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.126
CUDA5.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 980MX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 980MX is Radeon RX 5300M.

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