NVIDIA GeForce 820M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce 820M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 820M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

850
Place in performance rating
107
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Value for money (0-100)
56.16
Fermi
Architecture
Maxwell
GF117
Code name
GM204
Laptop
Type
Laptop
7 January 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
22 September 2014 (7 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$395.82
$490
Price now
$251 (0.6x MSRP)
0.05
Value for money
46.98
N15V-GM
GPU code name
N16E-GXX
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 820M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

96
Pipelines
2048
775 MHz
Core clock speed
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Boost Clock
1216 MHz
585 million
Transistor count
5,200 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
15 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
100-200 Watt
10.00
Texture fill rate
144 billion/sec
240.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
4,358 gflops
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CUDA cores
2048
96
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
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Boost clock speed
1216 MHz
585 million
Number of transistors
5,200 million
15 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
100-200 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 820M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Laptop size
large
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SLI options
+
PCI Express 2.0
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 820M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1800 MHz
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 820M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
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G-SYNC support
+
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Multi monitor support
4 displays
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HDCP
+
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Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
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Audio input for HDMI
Internal
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HDMI
+
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VGA аnalog display support
+
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DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 820M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
+
2.0
GPU Boost
2.0
+
CUDA
+
no data
GeForce Experience
+
no data
Surround
+
no data
Adaptive Vertical Sync
+
+
Optimus
+
no data
GameStream
+
no data
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
+
GameWorks
+
no data
BatteryBoost
+
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H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
+
Verde Drivers
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 820M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.5
OpenGL
4.5
N/A
Vulkan
1.1.126
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 820M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 820M or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 820M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 820M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 820M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 820M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 820M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 820M

Less power consumption (15 Watt vs 100-200 Watt)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

48.4% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($251 (0.6x MSRP) vs $490)

More pipelines (2048 vs 96)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 GB)

More memory bandwidth (224 GB/s vs 14.4 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

So, NVIDIA GeForce 820M or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile .

NVIDIA GeForce 820M versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 820M
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