NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M 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 13 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1125MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (28W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB +1820%

4.608 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

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GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

757 MHz

Base Clock

-

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

36.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

4.608 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.608 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

72.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GT215

-

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

28W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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