RTX A2000 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

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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-P0GA106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores20482560
Core clock speed1238 MHz682 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1207 MHz
Number of transistorsno data12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)95 Watt
Texture fill rateno data96.56
Floating-point processing powerno data6.18 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data80
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 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 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed12000 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data176.0 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 95 Watt

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has 58.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and RTX A2000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile is a notebook graphics card while RTX A2000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
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NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q
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