NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 36% higher core clock speed: 1410 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Around 48% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1127 MHz
4882.3x more texture fill rate: 253.1 GTexel/s vs 51.84 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 4864 vs 1536
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
4.3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2795 vs 649

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 Oct 2022 vs 7 October 2014
Core clock speed	1410 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz vs 1127 MHz
Texture fill rate	253.1 GTexel/s vs 51.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4864 vs 1536
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2795 vs 649

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 225 Watt
2.1x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

2795

649

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2795	649
PassMark - G3D Mark		7351
PassMark - G2D Mark		491
Geekbench - OpenCL		23826
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		92.634
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1146.534
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		18.431
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		308.42
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3342

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GA104	GM204
Launch date	19 Oct 2022	7 October 2014
Place in performance rating	460	462
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	1127 MHz
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	1038 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	253.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	16.20 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	16.20 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4864	1536
Pixel fill rate	133.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	253.1 GTexel/s	51.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		1536
Floating-point performance		1,659 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	None
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	608.3 GB/s	160 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective	2500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI