GeForce GTX 670M and GeForce GTX 980MX - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 670M

GeForce GTX 980MX

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

N13E-GS1-LP

GM204

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2012

June 2016

Bus support

PCI Express 2.0

-

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1178 MHz

Core clock speed

598 MHz

1050 MHz

CUDA cores

336

-

Floating-point performance

803.7 gflops

3,920 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

1664

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

148 Watt

Texture fill rate

33.5 billion/sec

122.5

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1500 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72.0 GB/s

192.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

Up to 2048x1536

-

DirectX

12 API

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

5.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126

Optimus

+

-