NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs 8-Core M1
            NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
            
                $249
            
        
    
            8-Core M1
            
                
            
        
    | 2560 Shaders 8GB GDDR6 1777MHz | 1024 Shaders Shared Memory 1278MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 291.14 TOPS INT4 Tensor Sparse | Peak AI Performance 2.62 TFLOPS FP16 | 
| FP32 9.1 TFLOPS | FP32 2.62 TFLOPS | 
| FP16 9.1 TFLOPS | FP16 2.62 TFLOPS | 
| Form Factor PCIe Card 1.9-Slots | Form Factor iGPU - | 
| TDP 115W | TDP Shared | 
| Power Connectors - - 1x 12-Pin - | - - - - - | 
| GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL 71,805 24% | GB5 OpenCL 18,260 6% | 
| GB5 CUDA 73,995 21% | GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Metal N/A 0% | GB5 Metal 21,170 12% | 
| GB5 Vulkan 57,700 28% | GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | 
| OCT Metal N/A 0% | OCT Metal 50 9% | 
| Peak AI
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                                            291.14 TOPS
                                         
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                                            2.62 TFLOPS
                                         
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                                            9.1 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            36.39 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate)
                                            
                                         
                                            72.79 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
                                         
                                            18.2 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            36.39 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            2.62 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            9.1 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            140 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            9.1 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            18.2 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            36.39 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            9.1 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            18.2 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            INT4
                                         
                                            145.57 TOPS
                                            
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                                            291.14 TOPS
                                            
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                                            72.79 TOPS
                                            
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                                            145.57 TOPS
                                            
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                                            4.55 TOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
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                                            13.7 TOPS
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| Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            56.864 GPixel/s
                                         | Pixel
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                                            40.896 GPixel/s
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| Texture
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                                            142.16 GTexel/s
                                         | Texture
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                                            81.792 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerNVIDIA | ManufacturerApple | 
| Chip DesignerNVIDIA | Chip DesignerApple | 
| ArchitectureAmpere | ArchitectureApple Gen 4 | 
| FamilyGeForce 30 | FamilyM Series | 
| Codename NV177 GA107 Variant GA107-150-A1 | Codename G13G M1 - - | 
| Market Segment Desktop | Market Segment Laptop | 
| Release Date 12/16/2022 | Release Date 11/10/2020 | 
| Foundry Samsung - | - - - | 
| Fabrication Node 8N - | - - - | 
| Die Size 200 mm² - | - - - | 
| Transistor Count 8.7 Billion - | - - | 
| Transistor Density 43.50M/mm² - | - - - | 
| Form PCIe Card | Form iGPU | 
| Shading Units 2560 Shaders - | Shading Units 1024 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 80 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 64 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 32 ROPs | Render Output Units 32 ROPs | 
| Tensor Cores 80 T-Cores | - - | 
| Ray-Tracing Cores 20 RT-Cores | - - | 
| Streaming Multiprocessors 20 SMs | - - | 
| - - | - - | 
| - - | Execution Units 128 EUs | 
| Graphics Processing Clusters 2 GPCs | Graphics Processing Clusters 8 GPCs | 
| - - 1552MHz Base 1777MHz | - - - 1278MHz | 
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| L1 64KB/SM Tex 128KB/SM - - | L1 - - - Unknown | 
| L2 2MB Shared | L2 Unknown | 
| - - - | - - - | 
| 8GB GDDR6 - | Shared Memory - - | 
| Bus Width 128Bit | - | 
| Clock 1750MHz Transfer Rate 14GT/s Bandwidth 224GB/s | - - - - - - | 
| - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - | 
| TDP 115W | TDP Shared | 
| - - | - - | 
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.1 - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - No Ports | 
| Max Resolution 7680x4320 | Max Resolution 6016x3384 | 
| Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | 
| Variable Refresh Rate G-Sync FreeSync - | Variable Refresh Rate - - - | 
| Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | 
| Multi Monitor Support 3 | Multi Monitor Support 1 | 
| Content Protection HDCP 2.3 | - - | 
| Model NVENC 7 | Model Apple Media Engine 1 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Model NVDEC 5 | Model Apple Media Engine 1 | 
| Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 VP8 VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_2 | - - - - | 
| OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.2 | - - - - - - | 
| Shader Model 6.6 CUDA 8.6 - - PureVideo HD VP11 VDPAU Feature Set K | - - - - - - - - - - | 
| - - - 2x Fans | Not a Card - - - | 
| Power Connectors - - - - - 1x 12-Pin - | - - - - - - - - | 
| Slots Required 1.9 PCIe Version 4.0 PCIe Lanes 8 | - - - - - - | 
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| Height 112 mm (4.41 in) Width 242 mm (9.53 in) Depth 38 mm (1.5 in) | - - - - - - | 
 
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
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