NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1605MHz vs 1178MHz)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +109%

8.218 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1605 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

1664

Shading Units

2560

104

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

12 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.04 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.218 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.218 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

128.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD107

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

GN21-X2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

146 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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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