NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1140MHz vs 1035MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile +13%

5.299 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1035 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.12 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.299 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.299 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA106

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.7

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