Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2014 Jul 2022
Generation GeForce 900 GeForce 30 Mobile
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1050 MHz 1237 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz 1492 MHz
Memory Clock 1753 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 6GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 256bit 96bit
Bandwidth 224.4GB/s 168.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1664 2560
TMUs 104 80
ROPs 56 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 2 MB 2 MB
SM Count 20
Tensor Cores 80
RT Cores 20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 65.97 GPixel/s 47.74 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 122.5 GTexel/s 119.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.920 TFLOPS 7.639 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 122.5 GFLOPS 119.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 7.639 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM204 GA107
GPU Variant GM204-200-A1 GN20-P0-R-K2
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 28 nm 8 nm
Transistors 5.2 billion 8.7 billion
Die Size 398 mm² 200 mm²
Board Design
TDP 148W 75W
Suggested PSU 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 5.2 8.6
Shader Model 6.4 6.8