NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1545MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +614%

18.98 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +421%

11909

GeForce GTX 970M

2283

Blender

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +1732%

3812

GeForce GTX 970M

208

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +655%

408

GeForce GTX 970M

54

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

6144

Shading Units

1280

192

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

48

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

148.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

296.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

18.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

18.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

296.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM204

GA104-775-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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