NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1492MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh +135%

6.111 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

1237 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1492 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

1344

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.74 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

95.49 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.111 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.111 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

95.49 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA107

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

Unknown

294 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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