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

GeForce GTX 980MX

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM204

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

June 2016

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1178 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1050 MHz

1552 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,920 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1664

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

148 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

122.5

102.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2