Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Place in the ranking	309	202
Place by popularity	25	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	37.01	no data
Power efficiency	13.42	53.47
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GA107	AD107
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	27 January 2022 (2 years ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year 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 cores	2048	2048
Core clock speed	1545 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	8,700 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	90 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	111.4	129.6
Floating-point processing power	7.127 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	64	64
Tensor Cores	64	64
Ray Tracing Cores	16	16

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 size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	242 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no 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 type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	128.0 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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
CUDA	8.6	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	17.62	27.30
Recency	27 January 2022	26 February 2024
Chip lithography	8 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	90 Watt	35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has a 54.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 157.1% lower power consumption.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB is a desktop card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.