NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1545MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

5504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB +1218%

18.98 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

640

Shading Units

6144

40

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

148.3 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

296.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.98 TFLOPS

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.98 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

296.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GA104

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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