NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 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 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1425MHz vs 1140MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +134%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

2048

120

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

60-115W

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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