NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs NVIDIA GeForce 840A

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

NVIDIA GeForce 840A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh and 2GB VRAM GeForce 840A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 840A 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1124MHz vs 990MHz)

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +369%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce 840A

0.863 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

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GeForce 840A

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

64bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM108

-

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

Unknown

Die Size

Unknown

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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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