NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1350MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q +654%

20.04 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

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GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

795 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

58

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

7424

80

TMUs

232

48

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

232

-

RT Cores

58

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.0 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

313.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

20.04 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.04 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

313.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD104

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

GN21-X9

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

8.9

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.7

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