NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2021
Sep 2015
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
GeForce 900M
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
780 MHz
1064 MHz
Boost Clock
1245 MHz
1140 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
224.4GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
48
-
Shading Units
6144
2048
TMUs
192
128
ROPs
96
64
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
119.5 GPixel/s
72.96 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
239.0 GTexel/s
145.9 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
15.30 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
15.30 TFLOPS
4.669 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
239.0 GFLOPS
145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA104
GM204
GPU Variant
GA104-775-A1
N16E-GXX-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
398 mm²

Board Design

TDP
80W
Unknown
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
None
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.7 (6.4)