NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock990MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 60W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB
+2011%
4.055 TFLOPS
GeForce GTS 160M
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2022
Release Date
Mar 2009
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 100M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
622 MHz
Base Clock
-
990 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
96bit
Memory Bus
256bit
144.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
8
2048
Shading Units
64
64
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
63.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
4.055 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.055 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
63.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
35W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
N10E-GS1
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
