NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 80W vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q Full Specs

Summary

2,048 Shaders 1.74GHz	2,560 Shaders 1.6GHz
4GB GDDR6192GB/s	6GB GDDR6192GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 7.13 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 8.22 TFLOPS
Form Factor Soldered	Form Factor Soldered
TDP 80W	TDP 35W

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1740MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1605MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 228.1 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse	Peak OPS 263 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP8-16 65.74 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 131.5 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 32.87 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 65.74 TFLOPS
Tensor FP16-16 28.51 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 57.02 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 14.25 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 28.51 TFLOPS	Tensor FP16-16 32.87 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 65.74 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 16.44 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 32.87 TFLOPS
BF16 7.13 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 14.25 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 28.51 TFLOPS	BF16 8.22 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 16.44 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 32.87 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 7.13 TFLOPS	Tensor TF32 8.22 TFLOPS
FP32 7.13 TFLOPS	FP32 8.22 TFLOPS
FP64 111.4 GFLOPS	FP64 128.4 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 114 TOPS	Tensor INT4 131.5 TOPS
Tensor INT8 57.02 TOPS	Tensor INT8 65.74 TOPS
Ray 10.75 TOPS	Ray 18.99 TOPS
Pixel Rate 55.7 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 51.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 111.4 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 128.4 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 2,048 Shaders	Shaders 2,560 Shaders
TMUs 64 TMUs	TMUs 80 TMUs
ROPs 32 ROPs	ROPs 32 ROPs
Tensor Cores 64 T-Cores	Tensor Cores 80 T-Cores
RT Cores 16 RT-Cores	RT Cores 20 RT-Cores
SMs 16 SMs	SMs 20 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 1.49GHz	Base Clock 1.14GHz
Boost Clock 1.74GHz	Boost Clock 1.6GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 2MB shared

L2 Cache 12MB shared

Memory

4GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 96-bit
Memory Speed 12GT/s	Memory Speed 16GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 192GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 192GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 80W

TDP 35W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP HDCP 2.3	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Encoder

Encoder Model NVENC 7	Encoder Model NVENC 8
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) -	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1

Decoder

Decoder Model NVDEC 5	Decoder Model NVDEC 5
Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1	Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1

Card

Form Factor Soldered

Form Factor Soldered

Chip

Manufacturer NVIDIA	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer NVIDIA	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Ampere	Architecture Ada Lovelace
Family GeForce 30	Family GeForce 40
Branding	Branding
Codename NV177	Codename NV187
Chip Variant GA107-140-A1	Chip Variant AD107
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date May 11, 2021	Release Date Feb 22, 2023

Fabrication

Foundry Samsung	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 8N	Fabrication Node 4N
Die Size 200mm²	Die Size 159mm²
Transistor Count 8.7 Billion	Transistor Count 18.9 Billion
Transistor Density 43.5 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 118.9 MTr/mm²

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