NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1455MHz vs 1343MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (45W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q +488%

28.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

4.813 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q

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GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1343 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

14

9728

Shading Units

1792

304

TMUs

56

112

ROPs

32

304

Tensor Cores

56

76

RT Cores

14

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

163.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.98 GPixel/s

442.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.21 GTexel/s

28.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.813 TFLOPS

28.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

442.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.21 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

45W

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GA106

GN21-X11

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

12 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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