GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB vs Arc A380

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking334not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation44.12no data
Power efficiency14.75no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-128GA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date14 June 2022 (2 years ago)6 July 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$149 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores10242560
Core clock speed2000 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed2050 MHz1492 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate131.2119.4
Floating-point processing power4.198 TFLOPS7.639 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6480
Tensor Cores12880
Ray Tracing Cores820

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
Length222 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1937 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth186.0 GB/s168.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0Portable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm

Arc A380 has a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Arc A380 and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc A380 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB is a notebook one.


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Intel Arc A380
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GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

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