NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Feb 2024
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
1042 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1470 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
96bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
168.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
2304
TMUs
80
72
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
SM Count
—
18
Tensor Cores
—
72
RT Cores
—
18
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
47.04 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
105.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
6.774 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
105.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
6.774 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GA107
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
GA107-325-K2-A1
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
Unknown
70W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
None
Suggested PSU
—
250 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
5.2
8.6
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
6.8
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
4,853
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
2,182
3DMark Speed Way
—
1,123
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.