NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 7 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1176MHz vs 990MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +169%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

1097 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM107

-

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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