GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q vs GTX 470M SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking627not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameN11E-GTGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 November 2010 (15 years ago)11 May 2021 (4 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 cores5762048
Core clock speed535 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1057 MHz
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data67.65
Floating-point processing powerno data4.329 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16
L1 Cacheno data2 MB
L2 Cacheno data2 MB

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
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amountno data4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data176.0 GB/s
Shared memory--
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX1112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2010 11 May 2021
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm

RTX 3050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

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