NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 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 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1282MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +151%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1664

120

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GM204

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GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

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

6.4

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