NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1492MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh +129%

6.111 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1237 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1492 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

47.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

95.49 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

6.111 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.111 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

95.49 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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