NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP104 GM206
GPU variant N17E-G3-A1 GM206-300-A1
Architecture Pascal Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 16 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 7,200 million 2,940 million
Die size 314 mm² 228 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Aug 15th, 2016
Generation GeForce 10 Mobile
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 183 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 900M
Successor GeForce 20 Mobile

Clocks

Base clock 1556 MHz 1127 MHz
Boost clock 1734 MHz 1178 MHz
Memory clock 1251 MHz 10 Gbps effective 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5X GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 320.3 GB/s 112.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2560 1024
TMUs 160 64
ROPs 64 32
SM count 20
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 2 MB 1024 KB
SMM count 8

Performance

Pixel rate 111.0 GPixel/s 37.70 GPixel/s
Texture rate 277.4 GTexel/s 75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 138.7 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 8.878 TFLOPS 2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 277.4 GFLOPS (1:32) 75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module Dual-slot
TDP 150 W 120 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Board number E2915 SKU 10 PG301
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches
Suggested PSU 300 W

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
CUDA 6.1 5.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 22nd, 2015
Generation GeForce 900
Production End-of-life
Launch price 199 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 124 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 10

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