NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1125MHz vs 1038MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970M
2.657 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q
+528%
16.7 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
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
585 MHz
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
1125 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
120.3GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
58
1280
Shading Units
7424
80
TMUs
232
48
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
49.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
108.0 GPixel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
261.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.70 TFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.70 TFLOPS
83.04 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
261.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
80W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA103S
N16E-GT-A2
GPU Variant
GN20-E8-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
Unknown
398 mm²
Die Size
496 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
6.5
