NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jul 2022
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
622 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
990 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
96bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
144.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
SM Count
—
16
Tensor Cores
—
64
RT Cores
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
31.68 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
63.36 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
4.055 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
63.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
4.055 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GA107
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
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Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
8.7 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
35W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.