NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 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 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock990MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/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 Max Q Refresh +2011%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

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GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

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

622 MHz

Base Clock

-

990 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

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

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF108

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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

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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