NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M 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 GTX 850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock990MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +251%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

622 MHz

-

Boost Clock

990 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GA107

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

Unknown

148 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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