NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M 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 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +984%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

-

990 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

128

64

TMUs

64

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

9.360 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

G92

-

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

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