NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1343MHz vs 1178MHz)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +22%

4.813 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1343 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

-

1792

Shading Units

1664

56

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

64

56

Tensor Cores

-

14

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

75.21 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

4.813 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.813 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

75.21 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

148W

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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