NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 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 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock990MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1952 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 540M
0.258 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh
+1471%
4.055 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Jul 2022
GeForce 500M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
622 MHz
-
Boost Clock
990 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
6GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
96bit
28.80GB/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
2.688 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.68 GPixel/s
10.75 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
63.36 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.055 TFLOPS
258.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.055 TFLOPS
21.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
63.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
GA107
N12P-GS-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
Unknown
116 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
6.6
