NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 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 7 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +181%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

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GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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

993 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 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

17.98 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM107

-

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

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

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