NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1176MHz vs 1125MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB +206%

4.608 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

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GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

757 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1125 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/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

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.00 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.608 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.608 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GA107

N16P-GX-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

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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