NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1343MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +234%

4.813 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1343 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

640

Shading Units

1792

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

56

-

RT Cores

14

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.98 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.21 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.813 TFLOPS

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.21 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GA106

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

12 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

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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