GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs Apple M1 GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated236
Place by popularitynot in top-10045
Power efficiencyno data21.64
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)11 May 2021 (3 years 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 cores82048
Core clock speedno data712 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1057 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data67.65
Floating-point processing powerno data4.329 TFLOPS
ROPsno data40
TMUsno data64
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 GB/s
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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 11 May 2021
Chip lithography 5 nm 8 nm

Apple M1 GPU has a 60% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 months.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 GPU and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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