NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB 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 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1178MHz vs 990MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +3%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

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

622 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

1664

64

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

148W

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

200 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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