NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (2000MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

6528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile +735%

32.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 50 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

64

SM Count

-

8192

Shading Units

1664

256

TMUs

104

96

ROPs

64

256

Tensor Cores

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

512.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

32.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

148W

550 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

377 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

10.1

CUDA

5.2

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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