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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1695MHz vs 990MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +713%

32.98 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

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GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1335 MHz

Base Clock

622 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

990 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

16

9728

Shading Units

2048

304

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

32

304

Tensor Cores

64

76

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

515.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

32.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

32.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

515.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

80-150W

TDP

75W

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GA107

GN21-X11

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

Unknown

379 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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