NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1545MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

5504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +1161%

18.98 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960M

1230

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +869%

11930

Blender

GeForce GTX 960M

185

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +1960%

3812

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960M

32

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +1175%

408

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

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

1097 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/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

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

148.3 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

296.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.98 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.98 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

296.6 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

115W

-

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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