NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB 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 35W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock990MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +2011%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

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GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

622 MHz

-

Boost Clock

990 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

16

96

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GA107

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

200 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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