Radeon RX 470D 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 popularity74not in top-100
Power efficiency29.44no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGN20-P0Ellesmere
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)21 October 2016 (8 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 cores20481792
Core clock speed1238 MHz926 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1206 MHz
Number of transistorsno data5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data135.1
Floating-point processing powerno data4.322 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data112

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
Lengthno data241 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed12000 MHz1650 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data211.2 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 data1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_212 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 21 October 2016
Chip lithography 8 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 120 Watt

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has an age advantage of 4 years, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and Radeon RX 470D. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon RX 470D is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
AMD Radeon RX 470D
Radeon RX 470D

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