GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

GA106

GM204

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2022

January 2015

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

1150 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

12,000 million

5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

142.2

73.60

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14 GB/s

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

80.19 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

5.2

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.7 (6.4)

Vulkan

1.3