NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 45W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1343MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +2406%

4.813 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1065 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1343 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

14

96

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

56

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

56

-

RT Cores

14

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.98 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.21 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.813 TFLOPS

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.21 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GA106

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

12 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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