GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

GN20-P0

GM206

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

May 2021

November 2015

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1500 MHz

1201 MHz

Core clock speed

1238 MHz

924 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,460 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

76.86

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

12000 MHz

7012 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12_2

12 (12_1)

CUDA

5.2

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.1.126