NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2022
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
622 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
990 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
96bit
256bit
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
-
Shading Units
2048
1664
TMUs
64
104
ROPs
32
56
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
31.68 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
63.36 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.055 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.055 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
63.36 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
GM204
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
5.2 billion
Die Size
Unknown
398 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GM204-200-A1
Board Design
TDP
75W
148W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,683
OctaneBench
-
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
40
Blender
-
305