GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1425 MHz

TDP 80 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

1,821

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

79,483

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

80,344

passmark_directx_10

53

90

passmark_directx_11

83

110

passmark_directx_12

46

58

passmark_directx_9

164

146

passmark_g2d

792

588

passmark_g3d

11,095

13,230

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

5,718

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

RTX 3060 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

3,840 +87.5%

Shaders

2,048

3,840 +87.5%

TMUs

128

120 -6.3%

ROPs

64

48 -25.0%

SM Count

—

30

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

6,144 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

68.40 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

30

Tensor Cores

—

120

Power

TDP

165 W

80 W

TDP (W)

165

80 -51.5%

Suggested PSU

450 W

—

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM204

GA106

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 30 Mobile

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

12,000 million

Die Size

398 mm²

276 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

13.1M / mm²

43.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

—

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 20 Mobile

Successor

GeForce 10

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