Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh vs GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking222not rated
Place by popularity60not in top-100
Power efficiency28.23no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGN20-P0TU106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)27 May 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 MHz945 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1380 MHz
Number of transistorsno data10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data165.6
Floating-point processing powerno data5.299 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
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

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 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data336.0 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 data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has an age advantage of 1 year, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile is a notebook graphics card while Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh
Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh

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