NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1350MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

5760 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q +411%

20.04 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 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

795 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

58

1664

Shading Units

7424

104

TMUs

232

64

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

232

-

RT Cores

58

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.0 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

313.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.04 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.04 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

313.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD104

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

GN21-X9

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

295 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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