NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1492MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB +120%

7.639 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

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GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1237 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1492 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

1536

Shading Units

2560

96

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

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.74 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

119.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.639 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.639 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

119.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA107

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

GN20-P0-R-K2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.8

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