NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Jun 2015
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
817 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
1076 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
336.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
-
Shading Units
3840
2816
TMUs
120
176
ROPs
48
96
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
103.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GM200
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
8 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
601 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GM200-310-A1
Board Design
TDP
60W
250W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.8
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
5,789
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
2,807
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
75
Blender
-
544
GTA 5 2160p
-
72
GTA 5 1440p
-
74
GTA 5 1080p
-
120