NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A 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
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (990MHz vs 936MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh
+238%
4.055 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 850A
1.198 TFLOPS
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 x16
Clock Speeds
622 MHz
Base Clock
902 MHz
990 MHz
Boost Clock
936 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
96bit
Memory Bus
128bit
144.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
-
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
14.98 GPixel/s
63.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.44 GTexel/s
4.055 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.055 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1198 GFLOPS
63.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
37.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
45W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GM107
-
GPU Variant
N15P-GT-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
1.87 billion
Unknown
Die Size
148 mm²
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
