NVIDIA readying more powerful GTX 980M and GTX 970M

While Intel’s integrated GPUs (iGPU) are certainly more prevalent in the mobile market, NVIDIA’s mobile graphics cards are by far and away superior.

As an example, Intel’s most powerful iGPU yet, the Iris Pro 580, only just manages to keep up with a GeForce GTX 750. In comparison, NVIDIA’s most powerful mobile GPU, the mobile variant of the GTX 980 (originally dubbed the GTX 990M) is as fast as its desktop counterpart.

Now, to close the performance gap between the mobile GTX 980 and the GTX 980M (which is about as fast as a desktop GTX 970), NVIDIA is readying the GTX 980MX and GTX 970 MX.

Owing to improvements made since the release of the GTX 980M and GTX 970M, the new chips have the same TDP, but whereas the GTX 980M had to make do with 1,536 Cuda Cores and just 96 texture units, the MX variant has 1,664 Cuda Cores and 104 texture units.

The GTX 970MX, as you might imagine, sees similar increases in Cuda Cores and texture units. And both MX chips have boosted clock speeds for even more performance.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900M comparison chart

Table courtesy of VideoCardz.

NVIDIA has yet to officially confirm these chips, but given what they were able to achieve with the mobile GTX 980, the MX chips aren’t that hard to believe.