NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1178MHz vs 1057MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
384 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980MX
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+10%
4.329 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce GTX 980MX
314
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+329%
1348
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 980MX
64
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+131%
148
Graphics Card
Jun 2016
Release Date
May 2021
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
712 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1057 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
16
1664
Shading Units
2048
104
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
75.39 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.82 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
67.65 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.329 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.329 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
67.65 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA107
N16E-GXX-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
Unknown
398 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
6.6
