GeForce GTX 980M SLI and RTX A2000 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980M SLI

RTX A2000 Mobile

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

-

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

October 2014

April 2021

Interface

-

PCIe 4.0 x16

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1127 MHz

1687 MHz

Core clock speed

1038 MHz

893 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2x 5200 Million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

95 Watt (35 - 95 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

-

108.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

176.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

-

3.0

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.6

Vulkan

+

1.2

Optimus

+

-