GeForce GTX 980M SLI and GeForce GT 1030 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980M SLI
GeForce GT 1030
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
-
N17P-G1
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
May 2017
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1127 MHz
1670 MHz
Core clock speed
1038 MHz
1228 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,127 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3072
384
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
35.23
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI
-
+
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12_1
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
Optimus
+
-
VR Ready
-
+