GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 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)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGN20-P0GA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 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 cores20482048
Core clock speed1238 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1492 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data95.49
Floating-point processing powerno data6.111 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed12000 MHz1500 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 75 Watt

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has 25% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

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


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

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