NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1650 points

6305 points

282% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS

136 FPS

104 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

81 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

114 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

62 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

3522.98 points

1232% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

104383 points

325% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

98514 points

312% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz

1455 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.4 GB/s

384 GB/s

139% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

45 W

122% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

151.3 Gigatexels/s

39% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

3328

116% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

8% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

235th of 597

77th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

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 5060 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980M in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 980M 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 980M.