Riva 128ZX vs GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking91not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency25.70no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)no data
GPU code nameGA104NV3
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)23 February 1998 (26 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6144no data
Core clock speed1110 MHz100 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHzno data
Number of transistors17,400 million4 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm350 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Wattno data
Texture fill rate296.60.1
Floating-point processing power18.98 TFLOPSno data
ROPs961
TMUs1921
Tensor Cores192no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16AGP 2x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6SDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz100 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s1.6 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)5.0
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.61.0
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 23 February 1998
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 MB
Chip lithography 8 nm 350 nm

RTX 3080 Mobile has an age advantage of 22 years, a 102300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 4275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile and Riva 128ZX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile is a notebook card while Riva 128ZX is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
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