NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2021
Jan 2015
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
712 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1057 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
—
Shading Units
2048
1024
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
64
—
RT Cores
16
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.82 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
67.65 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.329 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.329 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
67.65 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
GM206
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
2.94 billion
Die Size
Unknown
228 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GM206-300-A1
Board Design
TDP
75W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
4,879
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
35
GTA 5 1080p
—
70
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.