GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q and GeForce GTX 980 Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
N17E-G3 Max-Q
N16E-GXX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2017
September 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1278 - 1468 MHz
1216 MHz
Core clock speed
1101 - 1290 MHz
1064 MHz
CUDA cores
-
2048
Floating-point performance
7,516 gflops
4,358 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
90 - 110 Watt
100-200 Watt
Texture fill rate
234.9
144 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
10000 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320.3 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
BatteryBoost
-
+
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+
VR Ready
+
-