NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 4 years and 11 months late
384 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1178MHz vs 1057MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+10%
4.329 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980MX
3.92 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+329%
1348
GeForce GTX 980MX
314
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+131%
148
GeForce GTX 980MX
64
Graphics Card
May 2021
Release Date
Jun 2016
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
712 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1057 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
1664
64
TMUs
104
32
ROPs
64
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
75.39 GPixel/s
67.65 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
4.329 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.329 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
67.65 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
148W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
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
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
6.4
