GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh

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
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU117BGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 April 2020 (4 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 speed1380 MHz757 MHz
Boost clock speed1515 MHz1125 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate96.9672.00
Floating-point processing power3.103 TFLOPS4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6464
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 3.0 x16PCIe 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 width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s176.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 April 2020 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB has an age advantage of 2 years, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh
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GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

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