GeForce 840M and GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce 840M
GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N15S-GT
GN20-P0-R 6 GB
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
January 2023
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
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Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
1492 MHz
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
1237 MHz
Floating-point performance
863.2 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
17.98
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Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
12 (11_0)
12_2
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.5
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Shader Model
5.1
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Vulkan
1.1.126
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GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
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Optimus
+
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