NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1245MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +341%

15.3 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

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GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1245 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

6144

96

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

119.5 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.30 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.30 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

239.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA104

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

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

8.6

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.6

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