NVIDIA has finally caught up with its mobile GPUs – releases NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 for notebooks

LaptopMedia.com News NVIDIA has finally caught up with its mobile GPUs - releases NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 for notebooks

From: Rossen Pandev 23 September 2015 / 16:35 2

The day has come. NVIDIA has just released its latest mobile GPU that’s 35% faster than the current most powerful mobile graphics card – GeForce GTX 980M. Interestingly, the company has named the GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 because it wants to imply that the laptop-class GPU performs just as well as the desktop-class variant. All of its specs are identical to the ones found on the desktop-class GPU.

Below you can see some results published on the web by PCWorld and Eurogamer that confirm the initial claims of NVIDIA. And no wonder! The notebook-class GPU has 2048 CUDA cores, 128 texture mapping units and 64 raster operation units, while the 980M has 1536 CUDA cores, 96 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. The clocks of the GPU are identical to the desktop-class 980 too – 1126 – 1218 MHz. Speaking of the GPU, the graphics card integrates the same GPU used inside the “big” GTX 980 – GM204. Not only that, but the memory remains 8GB GDDR5, 256-bit bus clocked at 1753 MHz (7.0 GHz is the effective and the 980M also had 5.0 GHz and 4GB GDDR5 VRAM).

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However, the best part is that the GPU will be unlocked for overclocking going up to 1400 MHz, but the TDP goes between 125 and 150W as well, which is rather impressive to be honest. The graphics card will be available in SLI configurations in the near future and it will be interesting to see how the cooling will be done to support the system.

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Specs sheet

	GTX 980 (notebook version)	GTX 980M
GPU	GM204	GM204
CUDA cores	2048	1536
Texture units	128	96
ROPs	64	64
Clock speed	1064 – 1218 MHz with full OC support	1038 MHz
Memory	8GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory frequency	7008 MHz	5000 MHz
TDP	125-150W	125W

Author: Rossen Pandev

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max

10 years ago

“published on the web” without links, classy!

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Rossen Pandev

10 years ago

Reply to max

This actually slipped my mind and you are absolutely right that it was “classy”. Point taken and credit was given to the original authors of the tests.