NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1650 points

3468 points

110% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

32 FPS

82 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

41 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

59 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

31 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2939 points

6224 points

111% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

1484.67 points

461% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

21520 points

72998 points

239% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23785 points

71667 points

201% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

26093 points

56109 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

63483 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

62406 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

1552 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz

1777 MHz

57% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.4 GB/s

224 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

30% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

26% slightly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

31% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

162% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2560

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

231st of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980M vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 beats the GeForce GTX 980M in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a slightly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3050 over the GeForce GTX 980M.