GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

GeForce RTX 3070

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N16E-GXX SLI

Ampere GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

September 2015

September 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1228 MHz

1725 MHz

Core clock speed

1126 MHz

1500 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

10400 Million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

330 Watt

220 Watt

Texture fill rate

317.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3500 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.5

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2