NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q 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 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1230MHz vs 990MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q +179%

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

622 MHz

1230 MHz

Boost Clock

990 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

4608

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

144

Tensor Cores

64

36

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

177.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

11.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

177.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

GA107

GN21-X6

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

8.7 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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