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GeForce GTX 880M vs GeForce GTX 980M

Intro

The GeForce GTX 880M has a clock frequency of 954 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1536 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 980M, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1038 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 980M 9476 points
GeForce GTX 880M 6360 points
Difference: 3116 (49%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980M 100 Watts
GeForce GTX 880M 130 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same bandwidth, so in theory they should perform the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M will be a lot (approximately 23%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M 122112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980M 99648 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 22464 (23%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980M is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M 66432 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 880M 30528 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 35904 (118%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 880M GeForce GTX 980M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 12 2014 October 7 2014
Code Name GK104 GM204
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 954 MHz 1038 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 128000 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 122112 Mtexels/sec 99648 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 30528 Mpixels/sec 66432 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 1536
Texture Mapping Units 128 96
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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