NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1425MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +179%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +957%

2664

GeForce GTX 980MX

252

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +325%

268

GeForce GTX 980MX

63

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1664

120

TMUs

104

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

75.39 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GM204

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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

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

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

6.4

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