NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 6 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

2012 points

21% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS

52 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

30 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

30 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

1534.25 points

480% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

21520 points

70456 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23785 points

61102 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

26093 points

54040 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

62696 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

58257 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

945 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

80 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

230th of 586

208th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980M vs Quadro RTX 3000 specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 3000 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980M in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 980M has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro RTX 3000 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 3000 has a slightly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro RTX 3000 over the GeForce GTX 980M.