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

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1245MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

4480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +290%

15.3 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 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

780 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1245 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

1664

Shading Units

6144

104

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

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

119.5 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.30 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.30 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

239.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA104

N16E-GXX-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

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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