NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1125MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB +73%

4.608 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

757 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

4.608 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.608 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

72.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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