NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1350MHz vs 1140MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q +329%

20.04 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 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

795 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

58

SM Count

-

7424

Shading Units

2048

232

TMUs

128

80

ROPs

64

232

Tensor Cores

-

58

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

108.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

313.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

20.04 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

313.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GM204

GN21-X9

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

295 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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