NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2014
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
924 MHz
1515 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1755 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1750 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
224.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1280
2304
TMUs
80
72
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
18
Tensor Cores
-
72
RT Cores
-
18

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
56.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
126.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
8.087 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
126.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.087 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM204
GA106
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
GA106-150-KA-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
12 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
276 mm²

Board Design

TDP
Unknown
130W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
300 W

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
8.6
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
6.6