NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1245MHz vs 1124MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
5504 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q
+963%
15.3 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
1.439 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Mar 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
993 MHz
1245 MHz
Boost Clock
1124 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
-
6144
Shading Units
640
192
TMUs
40
96
ROPs
16
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
119.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.98 GPixel/s
239.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.96 GTexel/s
15.30 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
15.30 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1439 GFLOPS
239.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
44.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GM107
GA104-775-A1
GPU Variant
N16P-GT
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
