GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs Arc A370M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking383not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency26.41no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-128GA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date30 March 2022 (2 years ago)6 July 2022 (2 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 cores10242048
Core clock speed300 MHz757 MHz
Boost clock speed1550 MHz1125 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate99.2072.00
Floating-point processing power3.174 TFLOPS4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6464
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Cores816

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s176.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2022 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm

Arc A370M has a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months.

We couldn't decide between Arc A370M and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Arc A370M
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