NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1038MHz vs 990MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +52%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

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GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

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

924 MHz

Base Clock

622 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

990 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA107

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.7

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