NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1127MHz vs 1125MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q +382%

16.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

585 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

58

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

7424

Shading Units

1536

232

TMUs

96

ROPs

64

232

Tensor Cores

-

58

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

108.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

261.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

16.70 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.70 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

261.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA103S

GPU Name

GM204

GN20-E8-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

496 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

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

6.5

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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