NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1057MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile +2154%

4.329 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

VS

GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

712 MHz

Base Clock

-

1057 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

2

2048

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

67.65 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

4.329 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.329 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

67.65 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF108

-

GPU Variant

N11P-GE-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.585 billion

Unknown

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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