NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1665MHz vs 1127MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile +614%

24.72 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980M

2949

GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile +543%

18974

GeForce GTX 980M

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GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

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

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

58

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

7424

96

TMUs

232

64

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

232

-

RT Cores

58

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

386.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

24.72 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

24.72 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

386.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD104

N16E-GX-A1

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

110W

-

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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