NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 RTX 3080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1545MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +614%

18.98 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970M

2285

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +424%

11987

Blender

GeForce GTX 970M

208

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +1513%

3357

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970M

53

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +667%

407

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

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

924 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

1280

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

148.3 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

296.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.98 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.98 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

296.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

115W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA104

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.6

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