NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1207MHz vs 1140MHz)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB +32%

6.18 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

652 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1207 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.62 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

96.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

6.180 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.180 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

96.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

45W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7 (6.4)

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