NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1140MHz vs 1057MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

4.329 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +7%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

712 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1057 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

67.65 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

4.329 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.329 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

67.65 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

75W

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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