GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Stream Processor - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

Stream Processor

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ultra-Threaded SE

GPU code name

N16E-GXX SLI

R580

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

September 2015

2006

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1228 MHz

Core clock speed

1126 MHz

594 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

10400 Million

384 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

330 Watt

165 Watt

Texture fill rate

9.504

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3500 MHz

1296 MBps

Memory bandwidth

41.47 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12_1

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

2.1 (full) Shader Model-3.0

Vulkan

N/A