GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q vs FirePro M5100

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking606not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVenusGA107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date16 October 2013 (11 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 cores6402560
Core clock speed725 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speed775 MHz1035 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rate31.0082.80
Floating-point processing power0.992 TFLOPS5.299 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4080
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 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 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 October 2013 11 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q has an age advantage of 7 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M5100 and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M5100 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD FirePro M5100
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