NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 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 3070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1290MHz vs 1140MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +182%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

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

780 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1290 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

40

SM Count

-

5120

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

80

ROPs

64

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

206.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

13.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

206.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM204

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

392 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

6.6

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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