NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1695MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation +298%

15.62 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 980MX

314

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation +780%

2764

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

1664

Shading Units

4608

104

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.36 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

244.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.62 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.62 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

244.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD106

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

188 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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