GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N16E-GXX SLI

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

September 2015

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1228 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1126 MHz

1552 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

10400 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

330 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

102.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit Bit

Memory clock speed

3500 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2