NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (990MHz vs 936MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850A

1.198 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +238%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A

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GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 800A

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Base Clock

622 MHz

936 MHz

Boost Clock

990 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

14.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

1198 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GA107

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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