Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking201not rated
Place by popularity24not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation76.18no data
Power efficiency27.17no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA107AD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date2 February 2024 (less than a year ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$179 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores23042560
Core clock speed1042 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speed1470 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistors8,700 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate105.8162.0
Floating-point processing power6.774 TFLOPS10.37 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs7280
Tensor Cores7280
Ray Tracing Cores1820

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth168.0 GB/s192.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile has a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB is a desktop card while RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
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