NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1245MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

5504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +1001%

15.3 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

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GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 900A

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

1245 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

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

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

119.5 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.30 TFLOPS

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.30 TFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

239.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GA104

N16P-GX-A1

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

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

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Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

6.6

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