GeForce GTX 980MX and GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980MX
GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM204
GN20-E7 GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2016
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1245 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
780 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
6144
Power consumption (TDP)
148 Watt
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
122.5
239.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
320.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
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DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
5.2
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2