GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q vs GeForce GTS 160M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1245MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
6080 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q
+7868%
15300
GeForce GTS 160M
192
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Mar 2009
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 100M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
780 MHz
Base Clock
-
1245 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
48
SM Count
8
6144
Shading Units
64
192
TMUs
32
96
ROPs
16
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
119.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
239.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
15.30 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
15.30 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
239.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
80W
TDP
60W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
G94
GA104-775-A1
GPU Variant
N10E-GS1
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
