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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q 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 Ti Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1035MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q +358%

5.299 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1035 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.12 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.299 TFLOPS

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.299 TFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.80 GFLOPS

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

8.7 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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