Rumor: Nvidia 980MX and 970MX updates coming this summer-February 2024-www.yitit.com

　　Image used with permission by copyright holderNvidia is putting out updated versions of their mobile GPUs, if the latest rumor can be believed.

　　WCCFTech is reporting that Nvidia will soon reveal the Geforce GTX 980MX and 970MX graphics card, more powerful versions of the existing 980M and 970M, released back in 2014, that currently dominate the mobile gaming market. If these reports are accurate, the new chips should be on the market in this year’s second quarter.

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　　The GTX 980MX is apparently a compromise of sorts between the existing desktop GTX 980 and laptop GTX 980M chips. The 980MX reportedly offers the same frame buffer, memory frequency, memory bandwidth, and TDP as the 980M, and has the same GM204 architecture at its heart. But the 980MX offers 1,664 CUDA Cores to the 980M’s 1,536, and 104 texture units to the 980M’s 96. The 980MX also offers a slightly higher clock speed, at 1,048MHz to the 980M’s 1,038MHz.

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Model	GeForce GTX 980MX	GeForce GTX 980M	GeForce GTX 970MX	GeForce GTX 970M
Architecture	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell
GPU	GM204	GM204	GM204	GM204
CUDA Cores	1664	1536	1408	1280
Texture Units	104	96	88	80
Raster Devices	64	64	56	48
Clock Speed	1048 MHz	1038 MHz	941 MHz	924 MHz
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit	192-bit
Frame Buffer	8/4 GB GDDR5	8/4 GB GDDR5	6/3 GB GDDR5	6/3 GB GDDR5
Memory Frequency	5000 MHz	5000 MHz	5000 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	160 GB/s	160 GB/s	120 GB/s	120 GB/s
TDP	125W	125W	100W	100W

　　The less powerful GTX 970MX reportedly has a similar relationship to the existing 970M, with a slightly higher CUDA core count and more texture units, but otherwise similar specs. The above chart breaks down the differences.

　　All this is hypothetical at this point. Nothing has been officially announced, and it’s not clear who WCCTech’s sources are.

　　Having said that, Nvidia is presumably going to announce something soon – if not this, something else. The leak comes after rival GPU maker AMD revealed it’s upcoming Polaris line at CES 2016, which included some pretty big news in terms of energy efficiency.

　　Nvidia’s current mobile GPUs have dominated the gaming laptop market for a while now, but that could easily change if AMD’s numbers turn out to be accurate. It will be interesting to see what Nvidia ends up announcing.