GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and GeForce GT 420M - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
GeForce GT 420M
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GN20-P0
N11P-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2021
September 2010
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1500 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1238 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
-
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
96
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
6.0 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR6
(G)DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
12000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12_2
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A