GeForce GTX 295 and GeForce GTX 980MX - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 295

GeForce GTX 980MX

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

GT200B

GM204

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2009

June 2016

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1178 MHz

Core clock speed

576 MHz

1050 MHz

CUDA cores

480

-

CUDA cores per GPU

240

-

Floating-point performance

2x 596.2 gflops

3,920 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

1664

Power consumption (TDP)

289 Watt

148 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

92.2 billion/sec

122.5

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1792 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

896 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

223.8 GB/s

192.0 GB/s

Standard memory config per GPU

896 MB

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVIHDMI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

5.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126

High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)

128bit

-