NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce 840M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1207MHz vs 1124MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 840M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (33W vs 45W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB
+616%
6.18 TFLOPS
GeForce 840M
0.863 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2022
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 800M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
652 MHz
Base Clock
1029 MHz
1207 MHz
Boost Clock
1124 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
384
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.62 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.992 GPixel/s
96.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.98 GTexel/s
6.180 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.180 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
863.2 GFLOPS
96.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
26.98 GFLOPS
Board Design
45W
TDP
33W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GM108
-
GPU Variant
N15S-GT
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
Unknown
200 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
