NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1477MHz vs 1127MHz)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile +74%

6.05 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980M

2946

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile +31%

3872

GeForce GTX 980M

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GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1185 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1477 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

32

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.26 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

94.53 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.10 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.050 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA107

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.6

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