NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1207MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB +137%

6.18 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

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GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB

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

652 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1207 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.62 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

96.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.180 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.180 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.56 GFLOPS

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

8.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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