NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M 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 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock990MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +264%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

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Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

-

990 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

960

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Blackcomb

-

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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