GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1343 MHz

TDP 45 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE —

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

52,998

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

N/A

passmark_directx_10

46

61

passmark_directx_11

71

94

passmark_directx_12

41

55

passmark_directx_9

143

152

passmark_g2d

764

526

passmark_g3d

9,638

11,664

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

4,419

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 3050 A Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

1,792 +7.7%

Shaders

1,664

1,792 +7.7%

TMUs

104

56 -46.2%

ROPs

56

32 -42.9%

SM Count

—

14

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1065 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1343 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

192.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

42.98 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

75.21 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

4.813 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

75.21 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

4.813 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

14

Tensor Cores

—

56

Power

TDP

148 W

45 W

TDP (W)

148

45 -69.6%

Suggested PSU

300 W

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Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM204

GA106

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 30 Mobile

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

12,000 million

Die Size

398 mm²

276 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

Dual-slot

IGP

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 20 Mobile

Successor

GeForce 10

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