NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1605MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +209%

8.218 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1605 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.04 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.218 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.218 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

128.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD107

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

GN21-X2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

146 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

8.9

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.7

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