The GeForce GTX 980MX was a mobile graphics chip by NVIDIA, launched on June 1st, 2016. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the GM204 graphics processor, in its N16E-GXX-A1 variant, the chip supports DirectX 12. This ensures that all modern games will run on GeForce GTX 980MX. The GM204 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 398 mm² and 5,200 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce GTX 980, which uses the same GPU but has all 2048 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce GTX 980MX to reach the product's target shader count. It features 1664 shading units, 104 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. NVIDIA has paired 8 GB GDDR5 memory with the GeForce GTX 980MX, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1050 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1178 MHz, memory is running at 1500 MHz (6 Gbps effective). Being a mxm module card, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is rated at 148 W maximum. This device has no display connectivity, as it is not designed to have monitors connected to it. Rather it is intended for use in laptop/notebooks and will use the output of the host mobile device. GeForce GTX 980MX is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface.