GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile and GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile
GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104 SLI
N16E-GXX SLI
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
September 2015
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1645 MHz
1228 MHz
Core clock speed
1443 MHz
1126 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
14400 Million
10400 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
4096
Power consumption (TDP)
-
330 Watt
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
2x 8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
3500 MHz
Shared memory
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
+
DirectX
12_1
12_1
CUDA
+
+
Vulkan
+
-
VR Ready
+
-