GeForce GTX 970M SLI and GeForce GTX 980M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
GeForce GTX 980M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
-
GM204
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
October 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
-
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
1127 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
1038 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1536
Floating-point performance
-
3,462 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
-
51.84
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
160 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12_1
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
Ansel
-
+
BatteryBoost
-
+
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
+
+