NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 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 GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1140MHz vs 1125MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q +257%

16.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

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

1064 MHz

Base Clock

585 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1125 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

58

2048

Shading Units

7424

128

TMUs

232

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

232

-

RT Cores

58

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.0 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

261.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.70 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.70 TFLOPS

145.9 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-GXX-A1

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

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