GeForce GT 420M and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q - video card comparison
GeForce GT 420M
GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
GA107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
May 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1057 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
-
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
67.65
Memory type
(G)DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
11 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
176.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3