GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and GeForce GTS 250 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
GeForce GTS 250
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N16E-GXX SLI
G92B
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
March 2009
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1228 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1126 MHz
738 MHz
CUDA cores
-
128
Floating-point performance
-
387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
10400 Million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
128
Power consumption (TDP)
330 Watt
150 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
-
47.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3500 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
70.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
Two Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
12_1
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
3.0
Shader Model
-
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A