NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1125MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB +1686%

4.608 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

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GeForce GT 540M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

757 MHz

Base Clock

-

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

2

2048

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.688 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.75 GTexel/s

4.608 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.608 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

258.0 GFLOPS

72.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

21.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF108

-

GPU Variant

N12P-GS-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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