NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1605MHz vs 1140MHz)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +76%

8.218 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1605 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

128.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

8.218 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.218 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

128.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GM204

GN21-X2

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

146 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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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