NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 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 3080 Mobile 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1545MHz vs 1140MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB +306%

18.98 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB

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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

1110 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

2048

192

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

64

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

148.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

296.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

18.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

18.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

296.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

Unknown

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM204

GA104-775-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

6.8

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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