GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh vs GTX 970M SLI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking228not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.33no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 October 2014 (10 years ago)6 July 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25602048
Core clock speed924 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed1038 MHz1492 MHz
Number of transistors2x 5200 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)162 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data95.49
Floating-point processing powerno data6.111 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2x 6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width2x 192 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data144.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA+8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2014 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 162 Watt 75 Watt

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 7 years, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 116% lower power consumption.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M SLI
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