Rumor: Nvidia launches GTX 980MX and 970MX for laptops

Nvidia is said to be planning to release the successors to the GeForce 980M and 970M for laptops in the second half of 2016. These would still be based on the GM204, but have better specifications than the predecessors.

The fact that the Geforce 980MX and 970MX will replace the current Geforce top models for laptops in the second half of 2016 is reported by the South Korean Hwbattle, which recently correctly announced the arrival of the Polaris name for AMD GPUs. .

With the Geforce 980MX, the GPU based on the Maxwell architecture gets 1664 Cuda cores, while the 980M has 1536 cores. The 970MX would have 1408 cores, while the current 970M still has 1280 cores. The clock speeds would also be slightly higher. The most powerful GPU for laptops remains the laptop version of the GTX 980.

This year AMD will release its energy-efficient Polaris APUs, including for laptops. Perhaps these 14nm finfet-transistor graphics chips will compete with the GTX 980MX and 970MX, should they appear.

Mobile GeForce Line

Fashion model	GeForce GTX 980 Laptop Version	GeForce GTX 980MX (rumored)	GeForce GTX 980M	GeForce GTX 970MX (Rumor)	GeForce GTX 970M	GeForce GTX 965M	GeForce GTX 960M
Architecture	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell
GPU	GM204	GM204	GM204	GM204	GM204	GM204	GM107
Cuda cores	2048	1664	1536	1408	1280	1024	640
Texture units	128	104	96	88	80	64	40
RoP	64	64	64	56	48	32	16
clock speed	1218MHz	1048MHz	1038MHz	941MHz	924MHz	950MHz	1097MHz
Memory interface	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	192 bit	192 bit	128 bit	128 bit
Memory amount	8GB gddr5	8/4GB gddr5	8/4GB gddr5	3/6GB gddr5	3/6GB gddr5	4GB gddr5	4GB gddr5
Memory clock speed	7008MHz	5000MHz	5000MHz	5000MHz	5000MHz	5000MHz	5000MHz
Bandwidth	224GB/s	160GB/s	160GB/s	120GB/s	120GB/s	80GB/s	80GB/s
tdp	around 150W	125W	125W	100W	100W	90W	75W