NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1492MHz vs 1140MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh +30%

6.111 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

1237 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1492 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

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

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.74 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

95.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.111 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.111 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

95.49 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

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

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

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.6

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