NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1178MHz vs 1125MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB +17%

4.608 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

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GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

757 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1125 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

2048

104

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.00 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.608 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.608 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA107

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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