GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1038 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
CORE STATE
GA107
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1343 MHz
TDP
45 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 970M
RTX 3050 Mobile
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
2,048
+60.0%
Shaders
1,280
2,048
+60.0%
TMUs
80
64
-20.0%
ROPs
48
32
-33.3%
SM Count
—
16
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
1065 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1343 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
12 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
4,096
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
42.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
85.95 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
5.501 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
85.95 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
5.501 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
16
Tensor Cores
—
64
Power
TDP
—
45 W
TDP (W)
—
45
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
GPU Name
GM204
GA107
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce 30 Mobile
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
8,700 million
Die Size
398 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
13.1M / mm²
43.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.2
8.6
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
IGP
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
GeForce 20 Mobile
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
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