GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh vs RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking226not rated
Place by popularity74not in top-100
Power efficiency27.99no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGN20-P0TU106B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)29 January 2019 (5 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 cores20481920
Core clock speed1238 MHz960 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistorsno data10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)115 Watt
Texture fill rateno data144.0
Floating-point processing powerno data4.608 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
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 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed12000 MHz1353 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data259.8 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 29 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has an age advantage of 2 years, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 91.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
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