RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB vs GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking165not rated
Place by popularity11not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation69.36no data
Power efficiency17.26no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA106GA104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 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 cores25604096
Core clock speed1552 MHz495 MHz
Boost clock speed1777 MHz1170 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate142.2149.8
Floating-point processing power9.098 TFLOPS9.585 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs80128
Tensor Cores80128
Ray Tracing Cores2032

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s336.0 GB/s

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 Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 70 Watt

RTX 3050 8 GB has an age advantage of 8 months.

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 85.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB is a desktop card while RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
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