NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1125MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q +528%

16.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

585 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

58

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

7424

Shading Units

1280

232

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

48

232

Tensor Cores

-

58

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

108.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

261.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

16.70 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.70 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

261.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA103S

GPU Name

GM204

GN20-E8-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

496 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

80W

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

6.5

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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