NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1650 points

11108 points

573% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

32 FPS

285 FPS

253 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

140 FPS

115 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

193 FPS

171 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

110 FPS

90 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

5482.15 points

1973% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

159842 points

551% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

145828 points

510% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

1290 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz

1665 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.4 GB/s

432 GB/s

169% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

10% slightly lower TDP

110 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

84% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

386.3 Gigatexels/s

257% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS

24.72 TFLOPS

614% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

7424

383% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

232

141% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

230th of 586

34th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980M vs GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980M in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a slightly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop at 110 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M.