GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and GeForce GTX 980MX - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

GeForce GTX 980MX

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

GN20-E3 GA106

GM204

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

June 2016

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1702 MHz

1178 MHz

Core clock speed

817 MHz

1050 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,920 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

1664

Power consumption (TDP)

115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)

148 Watt

Texture fill rate

171.0

122.5

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

336.0 GB/s

192.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

5.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.4

Vulkan

1.2

1.1.126