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

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking309not rated
Place by popularity25not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation37.01no data
Power efficiency13.42no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA107GA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date27 January 2022 (2 years ago)6 July 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 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 cores20482048
Core clock speed1545 MHz757 MHz
Boost clock speed1740 MHz1125 MHz
Number of transistors8,700 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)90 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate111.472.00
Floating-point processing power7.127 TFLOPS4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6464
Tensor Cores6464
Ray Tracing Cores1616

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
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable 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 Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 January 2022 6 July 2022
Power consumption (TDP) 90 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB has an age advantage of 5 months, and 157.1% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB is a notebook one.


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