NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M 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 540M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 45W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock1343MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +1765%

4.813 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1065 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1343 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/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

2.688 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.98 GPixel/s

10.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.21 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.813 TFLOPS

258.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

21.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.21 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GA106

N12P-GS-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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