GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile vs A100 PCIe 80 GB

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated214
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.70
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA100GN20-P0-R 6 GB
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date28 June 2021 (3 years ago)6 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores69122560
Core clock speed1065 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed1410 MHz1492 MHz
Number of transistors54,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate609.1no data
Floating-point processing power19.49 TFLOPSno data
ROPs160no data
TMUs432no data
Tensor Cores432no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPSno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount80 GB6 GB
Memory bus width5120 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1593 MHz12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth2,039 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXN/A12_2
Shader ModelN/Ano data
OpenGLN/Ano data
OpenCL3.0no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA8.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2021 6 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 80 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 60 Watt

A100 PCIe 80 GB has a 1233.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 316.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between A100 PCIe 80 GB and GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that A100 PCIe 80 GB is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB
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