NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1343MHz vs 1178MHz)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +22%

4.813 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1343 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

1664

Shading Units

1792

104

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

56

-

RT Cores

14

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.98 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.21 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.813 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.21 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

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

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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