GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh vs GMA 950

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGeneration 3.5 (2005)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameLakeportGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 May 2005 (19 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 coresno data2048
Core clock speed166 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1492 MHz
Manufacturing process technology90 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate0.6695.49
Floating-point processing powerno data6.111 TFLOPS
ROPs132
TMUs464
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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data144.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.6
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2005 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 90 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 75 Watt

GMA 950 has 971.4% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 17 years, and a 1025% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GMA 950 and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel GMA 950
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