NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (12W vs 35W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1125MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2000 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520M
0.142 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB
+3145%
4.608 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Jul 2022
GeForce 500M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
757 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1125 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
1
SM Count
16
48
Shading Units
2048
8
TMUs
64
4
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.00 GPixel/s
5.920 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.608 TFLOPS
142.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.608 TFLOPS
11.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
72.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
12W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
GA107
N12P-GV-B-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.1
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
