NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 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 6GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1282MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +151%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

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GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

3840

104

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

148W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

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

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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